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

may 15 - “walking by the waters down where an honest river shakes hands with the sea”

may 14 - “All that was good, all that was fair, All that was me is gone.”

may 13 - “Star of love's soft interviews, Parted lovers on thee muse;
Their remembrancer in Heaven Of thrilling vows thou art,
Too delicious to be riven
By absence from the heart.”

may 11 - “Dark brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand.”

may 10 - “Often has your minstrelsy
Soothed the pangs of misery, Winging rapid thoughts away To realms on high.”

may 9 - “The old ways change in the turning, turning light, Taking and giving life to life from life.”

may 8 - “The wee birdies sing, and the wild flowers spring, While in sunshine the waters are sleeping
But the broken heart it kens nae second spring again, Tho’ the waefu’ may cease free their greetin’.”

may 7 - “A wandering particle captured one of them, and the two that were left made day and night, and left and right, and right and wrong, and black and white, and off and on, but things were never quite the same, and two will always yearn for three.”

may 6 - “For vanishing within my thought, And stealing back to view,
Earth mingled so with heaven, they wrought
One universe from two.”

may 5 - “Hers was the only house where I've lain at night in the absolute darkness of a box bed, listening to crickets being friendly.”