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Posted on April 4, 2019April 17, 2019

Glen Falls – a poem by Ciaran MacCormaic, Glencomeragh, Co. Waterford

A while back I posted “Be Still”, a poem by Agnes Hunt RHSM which is displayed on a board at the Holy Family Retreat Centre in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford. There…

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Posted on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.

  I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…

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Posted on April 2, 2018

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;…

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Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 2017

Versions of Alcman’s “Sleep”

At First Known When Lost, Stephen Pentz collects some versions of fragmentary lines by the Spartan lyric poem Alcman. This fragment was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the epigraph…

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Posted on May 30, 2017June 5, 2017

“Reciprocity”, John Drinkwater

From the ever wonderful First Known When Lost blog, a meditative post which features the poet John Drinkwater. All I knew of Drinkwater before this was a school text which…

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Posted on April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

First Known When Lost on Spring and mortality, with Herrick, Wallace Stevens, and Epictetus

Original here Spring beautifully — and gently — counsels us to be mindful of our mortality. This is sound advice. In fact, we are well-advised to consider our mortality on…

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