The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

They Mock Me for Planting Trees at My Age Seventy, and still planting trees. . .  Don't laugh at me, my friends. Of course I know I'...

Dido & Aeneas meet again Along with these, still nursing her raw wound, Dido of Carthage strayed in the great forest. As soon as the...

Saint Ite's Song Jesukin stays with me day out, day in; no loutish priest-spawned lodger he but my own dear Jesukin. I did not ge...

First we'll have the French original (this is sixteenth-century French, so don't panic if it looks different from your remembered hi...

Achilles rebukes his horses and the prophetic horse answers back x 9 Last week's poem was Keats's memorial to the sense of revela...

Dido & Aeneas, redux Last week's excerpt from the Divine Comedy showed us Dante meeting Virgil, who will guide him through Hell a...

Dante meets Virgil x 10 Dante Alighieri turns 750 this year. He was born in Florence in 1265; the exact date of birth is unknown, but he m...