Elegy For Jane (My Student, thrown by a horse) – Theodore Roethke
Text taken from here. Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Text taken from here. Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;…
I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…
‘She is a woman palpably meant for happiness (if only purely physical happiness, mere bodily well-being) and yet so casually, it seems, she has chosen solitude, loyalty to an absent…