A YEAR IN POEMS 6/16/2021

 “Come hither, Child! And rest:This is the end of the day,Behold the weary West! “Sleep rounds with equal zestMan’s toil and children’s play:Come hither, Child! And rest.” Ernest Dowson, “Villanelle of Sunset” My brother’s favorite non-classical poet and by...

A YEAR IN POEMS 6/15/2001

 “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore –While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.‘’Tis some visitor,’ I...