Coffee Table Poetry will be taking a brief hiatus for a few days due to a LONG overdue family visit.
I very much appreciate my loyal and devoted readers, and will pick right back up as soon as family leaves the middle of next week!
Have a wonderful weekend and week!
November 20, 2009
Barter
Let this delightful poem inspire your day!
--Description: 20th C, Teasedale S., Contentment, Joy, Life--
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
Sarah Teasedale
--Description: 20th C, Teasedale S., Contentment, Joy, Life--
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
Sarah Teasedale
--Did You Know: (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) Teasedale was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri. Throughout her life, Teasdale suffered poor health and it was only at age 9 that she was well enough to begin school. In 1898 she went to Mary Institute and to Hosmer Hall in 1899 where she finished in 1903. In 1913 Teasdale fell in love with poet Vachel Lindsay. He wrote her daily love letters, but nevertheless she married Ernst Filsinger in 1914 when she was 30; he was a rich businessman. Teasdale and Lindsay remained friends throughout their lives. In 1918, her poetry collection Love Songs won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America. She was not happy in her marriage, becoming divorced in 1929. In 1933, she committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow inspired and featured in a famous short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Read more at: Sara Teasedale
--Word of the Day: stolid \STOL-id\, adjective:
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.
Example:
Normally stolid, she occasionally joined in the frequent applause and smiled along with the laughter at the high-spirited session.
-Seth Mydans, "Indonesia Leader Imposes a Decree to Fight Removal", New York Times, July 23, 2001
--Quote of the Day: The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
-Charles R. Brown
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--TRIVIA FUN: What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA:
What religion has the most adherents: Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
Answer: Christianity
...SEE TOMORROW'S POST for today's Answer...
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--Word of the Day: stolid \STOL-id\, adjective:
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.
Example:
Normally stolid, she occasionally joined in the frequent applause and smiled along with the laughter at the high-spirited session.
-Seth Mydans, "Indonesia Leader Imposes a Decree to Fight Removal", New York Times, July 23, 2001
--Quote of the Day: The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
-Charles R. Brown
--TRIVIA FUN: What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA:
What religion has the most adherents: Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
Answer: Christianity
...SEE TOMORROW'S POST for today's Answer...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers is updated often. The easiest way to get your regular poetic inspiration is to subscribe by selecting E-mail or RSS Reader. Also, come follow us on Twitter. We look forward to making every day memorably intriguing for you.
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November 19, 2009
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
Let this delightful poem inspire your day!
--Description: 19th C, Dickinson E., Nature, Seasons--
A drop fell on the apple tree
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.
A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea.
Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What necklaces could be!
The dust replaced in hoisted roads
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
The breezes brought dejected
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
Emily Dickinson
--Description: 19th C, Dickinson E., Nature, Seasons--
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.
A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea.
Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What necklaces could be!
The dust replaced in hoisted roads
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
The breezes brought dejected
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
Emily Dickinson
--Did You Know: (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Read more at: Emily Dickinson
--Word of the Day: truculent \TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.
2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
Example:
I ask whether impeachment will become still another arrow in the quiver of the warrior class of ever more truculent partisan politicians in Washington.
--Quote of the Day: Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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--TRIVIA FUN: What religion has the most adherents: Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA:
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?
Answer: El Cid
...SEE TOMORROW'S POST for today's Answer...
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Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers is updated often. The easiest way to get your regular poetic inspiration is to subscribe by selecting E-mail or RSS Reader. Also, come follow us on Twitter. We look forward to making every day memorably intriguing for you.
--Word of the Day: truculent \TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.
2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
Example:
I ask whether impeachment will become still another arrow in the quiver of the warrior class of ever more truculent partisan politicians in Washington.
--Quote of the Day: Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
--TRIVIA FUN: What religion has the most adherents: Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA:
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?
Answer: El Cid
...SEE TOMORROW'S POST for today's Answer...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Coffee Table Poetry for Tea Drinkers is updated often. The easiest way to get your regular poetic inspiration is to subscribe by selecting E-mail or RSS Reader. Also, come follow us on Twitter. We look forward to making every day memorably intriguing for you.
Submit a poem on Coffee Table Poetry's GUEST BOOK FOR POETS
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