'She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.'
~ Lord Byron

May Night (1906) 🎨 Willard Metcalf

Israel beat Ireland 👀
#Eurovision2024

Giving this poem another outing because I love it so much.

So so much.

• James Wright •

'You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 we let them slip by.'
~ James M. Barrie

Feeding The Swans (1912)
🎨 Edward Atkinson Hornel

• John Clare •

Song of the Day from
Tom Rosenthal 🙂

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'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.'
~ Henry David Thoreau

In the Aspen Forest (1913)
🎨…

Trinity College’s tolerance of antisemitism is a betrayal of its Jewish staff and students

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A little poem to round off the day...

• Sara Teasdale •

Welcome to the Weekend! 😃
#Cork #EastFerry ✌️🌿🛶

Words for the Weekend 🥳

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Tally ho! 😄

'I bring you the gift of these
four words: 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂.'
~ Blaise Pascal

Christ in the Storm
on the Sea of Galilee (1633)
🎨 Rembrandt

Words for the Weekend 🥳

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'He coughed again, that deferential cough of his which sounds like a well-bred sheep clearing its throat on a distant mountain-top.'
~ P.G. Wodehouse

A Rocky Mountain Sheep (1879)
🎨 Albert Bierstadt

'And into the forest I go
to lose my mind and find my soul.'
~ John Muir

Backwoods (1872) 🎨 Ivan Shishkin