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Article #831592Re: PPB: A July Day / Eben E. Rexford
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:39
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:39
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Ash Wurthing wrote: > 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! While you actually are the one spewing more bullshit than even Donald Trump can manage, on your own limited mental scale, Ash. HTH and HAND.
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