My Personal Blog |
I have started a blog a little while ago. Please visit it at http://poeticoneirism.blogspot.com/It is updated regularly and I LOVE to receive comments and feedbacks!Hope to see you there soon.
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 01:47:00 GMT |
The Beauty of Paris in Photography |
This wonderful photographer has captured some of the most stunning images of the City of Light. I cannot get enough of this fantastic website!http://www.arnaudfrichphot....o.com/photo-de-paris-p
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Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:55:00 GMT |
97. Canticles II. XVI. (My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the Lillies) |
By Francis Quarles
Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow
My least desires unto the least remove;
Hee 's firmely mine by Oath; I, His, by Vow;
Hee 's mine by Faith; and I am His by Love;
H...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:22:00 GMT |
From Homer's "Odyssey" |
Now from his breast into his eyes the acheof longing mounted, and he wept at last,his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmerspent in r...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:51:00 GMT |
Opening lines to |
The Odyssey:
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that man skilled in all ways of contending,the wanderer, harried for years on end,after he plundered the strongholdon the proud height o...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:56:00 GMT |
Extract from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" |
Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall: And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen, And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall From what high...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:02:00 GMT |
'A Good-night' by Francis Quarles |
One of my favourite Metaphysical Poets...
A Good-night
CLOSE now thine eyes and rest secure;
Thy soul is safe enough, thy body sure;
He that loves thee, He that keeps
And guards thee, ne...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:49:00 GMT |
Musings on Music |
11 May
On Music
"See deep enough and you can see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it."
Thomas Carlyle
"Art was not created as a way to riches. Stri...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:45:00 GMT |
Phases of Artistic Apprehension - Qualities of Universal Beauty |
The most satisfying relations of the sensible must therefore correspond to the necessary phases of artistic apprehension. Find these and you will find the qualities of universal beauty. Aquinas says:...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:43:00 GMT |
Eloisa to Abelard |
Eloisa to Abelard (extracts)
by Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray'r accepted, and each w...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:42:00 GMT |
