Archives for December 2006
December 31
31 December 2006 | | No Comments
So, the year’s done with
( Love me forever! )
All March begun with,
April’s endeavour;
May-wreaths that bound me
June needs must sever;
Now snows fall round me,
Quenching June’s fever…
( Love me forever! )
- Robert Browning, Love
December 30
30 December 2006 | | No Comments
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain essay
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name […]
December 29
29 December 2006 | | No Comments
She comes not when Noon is on the roses–
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.
But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and candle-light and dreamlight
She comes to me.
- Herbert Trench, She Comes Not
December 28
28 December 2006 | | No Comments
Come slowly, Eden
Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars -alights,
And is lost in balms!
- Emily Dickinson, Come Slowly
December 27
27 December 2006 | | No Comments
There’s lots of things
With which I’m blessed,
Tho’ my life’s been both Sunny and Blue,
But of all my blessings,
This one’s the best:
To have a friend like you.
In times of trouble
Friends will say,
"Just ask… I’ll help you through it."
But you don’t wait for me to ask,
You just get up
And you do it!
And I can think
Of nothing in […]
December 26
26 December 2006 | | No Comments
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring […]
December 25
25 December 2006 | | No Comments
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another’s being mingle;–
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower […]