May 2010
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“Then Elspeth yearned for a sip of the moon. When she told the fish this, he rose...”
– From “Night Voyage” by Meredith Ann Pierce
May 31st
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“Where will you take us, Great Fish? Els asked. Wherever your heart lies....”
– From “Night Voyage” by Meredith Ann Pierce
May 31st
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 27th
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“The palace whirls Around giddy Endymion; seeing he Was there far strayed from...”
– From Endymion by John Keats
May 25th
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“Of lucid depth the floor, and far outspread As breezeless lake, on which the...”
– From Endymion by John Keats
May 25th
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“Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all round upon the calmed vast, So...”
– From Endymion by John Keats
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 21st
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May 20th
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“Adele heard him, and asked if she was to go to school ‘sans...”
– From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
May 20th
May 17th
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“He was grateful for the change of scene and admired Severn’s ingenuity -...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 14th
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“‘I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter,’ he ended....”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 14th
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“‘During the night,’ Severn wrote later, ‘when in the darkness...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 14th
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“The previous evening, Severn had stayed on deck late, sketching my moonlight....”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 14th
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“It has become a common-place to connect his efforts at self-creation with...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion BWAHAHA.
May 14th
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“‘The dream,’ he told George, ‘was one of the most delightful...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 14th
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“The sea is made of ponds - a cairn of rain. It has an island flirting up and...”
– “Sea Sonnet” by Alice Oswald
May 14th
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“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of...”
– “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
May 14th
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“Down to me quickly, down! I am such dust, Baked, pressed together; let my flesh...”
– “The Mummy invokes his Soul” by Michael Field
May 14th
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“i I sat with Love upon a woodside well, Leaning across thw water, I and he;...”
– From “Willowood” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
May 14th
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“Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line of gossamer suspended, in mid air...”
– From “Two the Insect of the Gossamer” by Charlotte Smith
May 14th
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“Jove for Europa’s love took shape of bull, And for Calisto played...”
– “Jove for Europa’s love took shape of bull” by Barnabe Barnes
May 14th
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“So shoots a star as doth my mistress glide At midnight through my chamber;...”
– From “So shoots a star as doth my mistress glide” by John Davies of Hereford
May 14th
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“Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night, Brother to death, in silent...”
– “Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night” by Samuel Daniel
May 14th
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“Yourself the sun, and I the melting frost, Myself the flax and you the kindling...”
– “Yourself the sun, and I the melting frost” by Sir Arthur Gorges
May 14th
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“Coming to kiss her lips, such grace I found Me seemed I smelled a garden of...”
– “Coming to kiss her lips, such grace I found” by Edmund Spenser Steamy.
May 14th
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“Yet even Brown would feel stared into strangeness by the end of their journey....”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 13th
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“Writing drowsily to his brother, he said: ‘My passions are all asleep from...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion Did I mention this biography is over 500 pages? >.>
May 13th
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“‘O there is nothing like fine weather,’ he said, ‘and health,...”
– From Keats: a Biography by Andrew Motion Seriously, one of his very few “I love life!!111” statements, if there ever was one.
May 13th
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“Zephyr: Gentle Breama! by the first Violet young nature nurst, I will bathe...”
– From “Song of Four Fairies” by John Keats
May 13th
May 10th
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“Keats had grown into an ‘active, athletic and enduringly strong’...”
– From Keats, a Biography by Andrew Motion
May 10th
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“‘I hardly had a chance to slip away and my chores kept me busy. Not that I...”
– From the novel The Rope Trick by Lloyd Alexander
May 10th
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“Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me. Though the...”
– “Say over again, and yet once over again” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May 7th
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May 5th
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“MRS. ALLONBY [goes over to LORD ILLINGWORTH]: There is a beautiful moon tonight....”
– From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
May 5th
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