Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Oct 12, 2005, 15:16
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>Always curious, found it in "The Cherry Tree" Grigson - he puts the author as Berchan (?-8thC)...<
Yikes, moss, that's amazing and must be the oldest MP we've got yet!
Thanks also for the two other great poems you posted - will get them up on the MP blog eventually. Heaney's <b>A Dream of Solstice</b> is now there (http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/) preceded by an illustration of Newgrange by Oscar Montelius (thanks to FourWinds for drawing my attention to the latter).
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PeterH
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:14
Aelfric
Oct 12, 2005, 18:39
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Some men are so blinded that they bring
Their offerings to an earth-fast stone,
And eke to trees, and to well springs,
Even as witches teach.
And will not understand
How foolishly they act,
Or how the dead stone or the dumb tree can
Help or give then health,
When they themselves stir not
Sume men synd ablende thaet hi bringath heora lac
to eorrdfaestum stane and eac to treowum
and to wylsprimgum swa swa wiccan taecath
and nellath understandan hu stuntlice hi doth
odde hu se deada stan othe thaet dumbe treow
him maege gehelpan othe haele forgifan
thone hi sylfe ne astyriath of thaere stowe naefre.
Aelfric
Just one of a number of early Christian warnings against the continuing heathen worship of stones, trees and sacred springs. The latter were soon turned into holy wells of course.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Oct 12, 2005, 19:00
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>Sume men synd ablende thaet hi bringath heora lac to eorrdfaestum stane...<
Jeeze... that just about sums it up. We're all frigging nutters here - blind but happy in our love of stones.
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PeterH
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Oct 12, 2005, 20:24
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Yep - it could be the credo of Megaraks everywhere:
Some men are so blinded that they bring
Their offerings to an earth-fast stone
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:15
Ezra Pound: Pisan Cantos
Oct 15, 2005, 16:08
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Tying together (perhaps) some recent threads, the following...
What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs
or is it of none?
First came the seen, then thus the palpable
Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell,
What thou lovest well is thy true heritage
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
Ezra Pound. Pisan Cantos LXXXI
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:16
Robert Southey: Inscription 05 - for a monument at Silbury Hill
Oct 20, 2005, 14:54
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A poem by Robert Southey (1774-1843) entitled Inscription 05 - For a Monument At Silbury-Hill is now up at http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
Thanks to Nigel for drawing my attention to the poem.
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Littlestone
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Calling Cursus Walker and Jezreell
Oct 23, 2005, 18:12
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Cursus Walker and Jezreell; now that we have a date for the Silbury Hill Public Meeting in Avebury on 26 November, may I have your permission to repost here, on Megalithic Poems ( http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ ) and on the Stones List your poems <b>Silbury: What does it mean to me?</b> and <b>The Silbury Lament?</B
Hopefully even a small 'poetic contribution' will help raise interest in the present dire condition of Silbury and lead towards its proper conservation.
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:16
Robert Southey: Inscription 05 - for a monument at Silbury Hill
Oct 24, 2005, 21:51
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05 - a number spookily predicted (in this year of Silbury's need) by Robert Southey (1774-1843) in his Inscription 05 - For A Monument at Silbury-Hill. The 05 has nothing to do with 1805 or 2005 but...
This mound in some remote and dateless day
Rear'd o'er a Chieftain of the Age of Hills,
May here detain thee Traveller! from thy road
Not idly lingering. In his narrow house
Some Warrior sleeps below: his gallant deeds
Haply at many a solemn festival
The Bard has harp'd, but perish'd is the song
Of praise, as o'er these bleak and barren downs
The wind that passes and is heard no more.
Go Traveller on thy way, and contemplate
Glory's brief pageant, and remember then
That one good deed was never wrought in vain.
Thanks to Nigel for drawing my attention to this one. Let's hope, "That one good deed was never wrought in vain" is the right deed 'undertaken' for Silbury at this crucial time.
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nigelswift
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:17
The Stones of Avebury
Oct 28, 2005, 10:11
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"The Stones of Avebury"
... words AND music.
http://www.strum.co.uk/sounds/avebury.htm
(OK, the music might be a bit dubious for most people here, but I quite like it)
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Oct 28, 2005, 12:10
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That's pretty cool Nigel - where on earth do you keep finding them?
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