joy

4 entries · All themes

• Mar 19 The Root of Praise W.H. Auden, Making, Knowing and Judging (The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays) Every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, di...
• Feb 28 Riding on Its Own Melting Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. No one can really hold ...
• Feb 11 Praise for Dappled Things Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things—
• Jan 25 The Artifice of Eternity William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium That is no country for old men. The young