bente’s Reviews > A Year of Scottish Poems > Status Update

feb 14 - “Seeing the false and searching for the true”

“A fountain in a waste, A well of water in a country dry, Or anything that's honest and good, an eye That makes the whole world bright.”

feb 13 - “Darling, I will track your flight till it is a dot that turns and banks and falls out of sight, looking into the space where you were.”

feb 12 - “So I have gathered unto myself
All the loose ends of Scotland, And by naming them and accepting them, Loving them and identifying myself with them, Attempt to express the whole.”

feb 11 - “Why, as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid?”

feb 10 - “What I wanted was such a plump, bountiful landscape of snow, more than I'd ever dared wish for.”

feb 8 - “Consider the way she had to go, Think of the hungry snare, The net she herself had woven, Aware or unaware, Of the dancing feet grown still, The blinded eyes -
Queens should be cold and wise”

feb 7 - “Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, Oh! where hae ye been?”

feb 6 - “So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war”

feb 5 - “O to dream, O to awake and wander There, and with delight to take and render, Through the trance of silence,
Quiet breath;”

feb 4 - “You might as well love 'em.”