Halloween Poems: Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 4:16 pm on Oct 29, 2008

In night when colors all to black are cast,
Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;
The eye a watch to inward senses placed,
Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight,
Gives vain alarums to the inward sense,
Where fear stirred up with witty tyranny,
Confounds all powers, and thorough self-offense,
Doth forge and raise impossibility:
Such as in thick depriving [...]


Halloween Poems: The Hag by Robert Herrick

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 7:03 am on Oct 28, 2008

The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne’r so foule be the weather.
A Thorn or a Burr
She takes [...]


Halloween Poems: Dance of Death by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 3:58 pm on Oct 27, 2008

The warder looks down at the mid hour of night,
On the tombs that lie scatter’d below:
The moon fills the place with her silvery light,
And the churchyard like day seems to glow.
When see! first one grave, then another opes wide,
And women and men stepping forth are descried,
In cerements snow-white and trailing.
In haste for the sport soon [...]


Halloween Poems: Totentanz by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 3:56 pm on

Der Türmer, der schaut zu Mitten der Nacht
Hinab auf die Gräber in Lage;
Der Mond, der hat alles ins Helle gebracht;
Der Kirchhof, er liegt wie am Tage.
Da regt sich ein Grab und ein anderes dann:
Sie kommen hervor, ein Weib da, ein Mann,
In weißen und schleppenden Hemden.
Das reckt nun, es will sich ergetzen sogleich,
Die Knöchel zur Runde, [...]


Happy Father’s Day

general — Gary R. Hess @ 12:20 am on Jun 15, 2008

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers around the world.
As a tribute to you all, here are several pages written specifically for fathers:
Classic Poems for Father’s Day
Father’s Day quotes
Father’s Day Poems
Funny Father’s Day Quotes
Poem for Dad
History of Father’s Day:
The idea of Father’s Day was first proposed by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington, in 1909 as [...]


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