Do you have any books on your shelves that have been there for some time? Maybe you don't even remember why you first bought them. They sit there, and one day you decide, "Now is the time to read this." That was me with Goethe's Faust. With most books, I remember why I got them, …
There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry –This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll –How frugal is the ChariotThat bears the Human Soul – Simple, elegant, and contained within itself. This poem lends itself to be what it instructs: a frugal chariot …
Continue reading Poetry: Dickenson – There is no Frigate like a Book
A least a dozen people in the last year or so have told me that I HAVE to read Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. So I finally bought a copy, and a couple of weeks ago, I sat down to read it. Thankfully, I read the inside cover first, which informed me that this was …
Continue reading Review: Till We Have Faces & Cupid and Psyche
When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?"I fondly ask. But Patience, to …
Continue reading Poetry: Milton – When I consider how my light is spent
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