Littlestone
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Re: Julian Cope: In dedication. From the hunter
Sep 29, 2010, 07:50
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Littlestone wrote:
'fraid this link no longer works. Does anyone have a different link or a transcript of the poem?
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nigelswift
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Re: Julian Cope: In dedication. From the hunter
Sep 29, 2010, 08:43
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http://www.guitarsolos.com/videos-mother-earth-%5BJY79nspl-xs%5D.cfm
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Littlestone
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Edited Sep 29, 2010, 10:38
Re: Julian Cope: In dedication. From the hunter
Sep 29, 2010, 08:45
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Littlestone wrote: Littlestone wrote:
'fraid this link no longer works. Does anyone have a different link or a transcript of the poem?
Ah... not to worry, it's on the inside cover of TMA (thanks Gordon)! Don't have a link to JC reading it though.
Edit. Poem and a video here - http://www.guitarsolos.com/videos-mother-earth-%5BJY79nspl-xs%5D.cfm
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Littlestone
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Re: Emmeline Fisher: Lines suggested by the opening made in Silbury Hill 1849
Jan 13, 2011, 18:53
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For further footnotes on this see http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=61079&message=774732
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Littlestone
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Wayland's Smithy: Job Cork
Mar 17, 2011, 16:36
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If you along the Rudgeway go,
About a mile for aught I know,
There Wayland's cave then you may see,
Surrounded by a group of trees.
They say that in this cave did dwell
A smith that was invisible;
At last he was found out, they say,
He blew up the place and vlod away.
To Devonshire then he did go,
Full of sorrow, grief and woe,Wayland's Smithy: Job Cork
Never to return again;
So here I'll add the shepherd's name -
Job Cork.
Thanks to wysefool for first posting this on the 13th May 2007 - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/58064/folklore/waylands_smithy.html#comment5329
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Littlestone
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Mr Sludge the Medium: Robert Browning
Apr 30, 2011, 14:02
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Each states the law and fact and face o’ the thing
Just as he’d have them, finds what he thinks fit,
Is blind to what missuits him, just records
What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest...
Such a scribe
You pay and praise for putting life in stones,
Fire into fog, making the past your world.
Robert Browning (1812-1889).
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tjj
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Re: Rite
May 17, 2011, 18:48
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Rite
Above my door the rushy cross,
the turf upon my hearth,
for I am of the Irishry
by nurture and by birth:
And let no patriot decry,
nor Kelt dispute my claim,
for I still hold the faith was here
before St. Patrick came.
The healing well was known to me,
the magic of the thorn,
the menace of the cursing stones,
long years ere I was born.
Before men swung the crooked scythe
I aimed my hook with care,
and from the stook-lined harvest field
bore off the platted Hare.
And yesterday as I came down
where Oisin’s grave-stones stand,
the holly branch with berries hung
rose upright in my hand.
John Hewitt (1907-1987)
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Littlestone
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Edited Jun 03, 2011, 18:36
John Montague: Like dolmens round my childhood
Jun 03, 2011, 15:05
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http://anglisztika.ektf.hu/new/content/letoltesek/angnyir/segedanyagok/an612/montague.pdf
See also link here - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=62718
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tiompan
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Re: John Montague: Like dolmens round my childhood
Jun 03, 2011, 15:08
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Littlestone wrote:
It was probably in plain sight and not under turf too .Thanks LS.
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Littlestone
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Downland Man: H J Massingham
Jul 04, 2011, 20:36
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Not a poem but a nice piece of prose from Massingham (Downland Man by H J Massingham, pp. 34).
“The halt, the barren, the luckless, the schemer, the mourner, the curious, the husbandman, the devout, the toiler in the mines, entertainers and the entertained, all sorts and conditions of men flocked to Avebury: for stones increased the womb and the harvest, stones poured out medicinal virtue, stones smiled upon the faithful and turned the tide of ills, stones blessed, stones cursed, stones gave life to the dead, stones and stars had subtle correspondence, and among the stones were jollity, feasting and dancing.”
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