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Article #831565Re: PPB: A July Day / Eben E. Rexford
From: Ash Wurthing
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:36
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:36
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On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 11:23:41 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 2:38:18 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote: > > On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:16:29 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: > > > > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: > > > > A July Day, by Eben E. Rexford > > > > [...] > > > > A glory wraps the hills, and seems > > > > To weave an atmosphere of dreams > > > > [...] > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-day-eben-e-rexford.html > > > > > > > > Picture: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Summer at Shinnecock Hills, > > > > 1891. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons > > > What a boring, sing-song poem > > Like I said, look who's talking. > You and Michael Pendragon specialize in dreary sing-song, second handed rhymes, Nancy Gene. > And so it goes. > > ! We saw this review of Mr. Rexford's ability as a poet: > > > > > > βMost of his poems are as far on the lugubrious side as are the poems of a certain recent popular poet on the pollyanna, but they are just as bad, and are reminiscent of the poems of Emmeline Grangerford.β > > > > > > βThe House of Beadle & Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literatureβ by Albert Johannsen (c1950). > > > https://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/rexford_eben.html > > > > > > Full poem: > > > > > > "A July Day > > > by Eben Eugene Rexford > > > In idle mood, this happy day, > > > I let the moments drift away; > > > I lie among the tangled grass > > > And watch the crinkling billows pass > > > O'er seas of clover. Like a tide > > > That sets across the meadow wide, > > > The crimson-crested ripples run > > > From isles of shade to shores of sun; > > > And one white lily seems to be > > > A sail upon this summer sea, > > > Blown northward, bringing me, to-day, > > > A fragrant freight from far Cathay. > > > > > > Low as the wind that waves the rose > > > In gardens where the poppy grows, > > > And sweet as bells heard far away, > > > A robin sings his song to-day; > > > Sings softly, by his hidden nest, > > > A little roundelay of rest; > > > And as the wind his dwelling swings > > > He dreams his dream of unfledged wings, > > > While, blending with his song, I hear > > > A brook's low babble, somewhere near. > > > A glory wraps the hills, and seems > > > To weave an atmosphere of dreams > > > About the mountain's kingly crest > > > As sinks the sun adown the west. > > > Earth seems to sit with folded hands > > > In peace he only understands > > > Who has no care, no vain regret, > > > No sorrow he would fain forget, > > > And like a child upon her breast > > > I lie, this happy day, and rest. > > > > > > The " green things growing " whisper me > > > Of many an earth-old mystery; > > > Of blossoms hiding in the mold, > > > And what the acorn-cups enfold; > > > Of life unseen by eyes too dim > > > To look through Nature up to Him > > > Who writes the poem of the year > > > For human heart, and eye, and ear. > > > > > > O summer day, surpassing fair, > > > With hints of heaven in earth and air, > > > Not long I keep you in my hold β > > > The book is closed β the tale is told. > > > The valley fills with amber mist; > > > The sky is gold and amethyst. > > > Soft, soft and low, and silver clear > > > The robin's vesper hymn I hear, > > > And see the stars lit, one by one. > > > The happy summer day is done." > ... Like I said tyrant, ust like Trump, you've know that you can outright do what you call is wrong- right in people's faces and then try to tell people you didn't, because you know your lackeys will accept anything you say as gospel, like a Fundie minister. You have been great inspiration for writings against the alt Right, so I must thank you for being such a willing heel!
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