Three: Psalmist
Psalm 23: The Psalmist (circa 6th Century B.C.E.) The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul:...
View ArticleFour: Canticles
The Song of Songs (circa 3rd Century BCE) The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Because of the savour of thy good...
View ArticleFive: To Lesbia
Song #5 to Lesbian by Gaius Valerius Catullus (circa 84-54 BCE) Come and let us live my Deare, Let us love and never feare. What the sourest Fathers say: Brightest Sol that dyes to day Lives againe as...
View ArticleSix: The Aeneid
From The Aeneid of Virgil (circa 29-19 BC) Arms, and the Man I sing, who, forc’d by Fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting Hate; Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and...
View ArticleA Successful Poetry Month
For the last two months, I’ve pursued some themed-reading. This is something I tried a couple of years ago as a year-long project, changing my reading theme every month, but it didn’t quite work. It...
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