Yet whenever I cross the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. --Longfellow https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50463/the-bridge-56d22d989abbc
The Bridge
A Letter to Michel de Montaigne
Dear Monsieur de Montaigne, I hope this letter finds you well, in spite of the fact that you are dead. First, I must tell you how much I enjoy your work, and how sorry I was to hear the reports of said death. I suppose it is only to be expected as you did live... Continue Reading →
A Perfect Day
God's in His heaven-- All's right with the world! --Robert Browning http://www.bartleby.com/101/718.html
The Garden of Miss Austen
Chawton Cottage is the house where Jane Austen spent her last years—and where she wrote many of her novels. The house is really a “cottage” in name only. It contains six bedrooms, as well as various other rooms. It belonged to her much wealthier brother—one of many dwellings he owned—and he renovated it for the... Continue Reading →
The Lighthouse
"Sail on!" it says, "sail on, ye stately ships! And with your floating bridge the ocean span; Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse, Be yours to bring man nearer unto man!" --Longfellow http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=116
Tiger, tiger, burning bright....
