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"Dream mighty dreams".

I have not been able to be on the Internet for a short while, and what a lovely suprize to see so many new entries.
Many thanks to you all

Bridget :-)

For those who understand
No explanation is necessary............

For those who don't,none will do.

"Babies are happily ignorant of the cares & worries which are accumulated on their behalf".

(Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope).

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright
Winter will have another fight,
If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain,
Winter will not come again.

'A hair on the head is worth two on the brush'.

'Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way'.

'It's no use carrying an umbrella on a rainy day if your shoes leak'.

'A kind word never broke anyone's mouth'.

(Irish Proverbs-R-Us).

With Valentine's Day on Thursday, I remember a young English literature student of my acquaintance many moons ago (like almost 50 years now) saying that John Donne was the most wonderful love poet. What she meant is that of the 3 words from Greek that we translate as "love" (eros, filio and agape), he was best at "eros".

Well, I am a bit of a heathen as far as a most of poetry is concerned. I found his poem on "Ecstasy" but wonder if there are more suitable classical love poems for 14 Feb?

Where, like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best;

Our hands were firmly cemented
With a fast balm, which thence did spring,
Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes, upon one double string;

So to' intergraft our hands, as yet
Was all the means to make us one,
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.

As 'twixt two equal armies, Fate
Suspends uncertain victory,
Our souls (which to advance their state,
Were gone out) hung 'twixt her, and me.

And whilst our souls negotiate there,
We like sepulchral statues lay;
All day, the same our postures were,
And we said nothing, all the day.

A Valentine I went and got,
Because I love you such a lot!

Prince Charles is now the longest Heir Apparent, apparently.

IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING SET IT FREE,
IF IT COMES BACK
IT WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR'S

Sir Winston Churchill said

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.


how very true

I am sorry I have not been on here for a day or two but will be backe in the next day or so.
Thank you to those who posted recently.

Bridget :-) <3 :-) <3

Mother of mine you gave to me, all of my life to do as I please,
I owe everything I have to you,
Mother sweet mother of mine.

Mother of mine when I was young
You showed me the right way things had to be done,
Without your arms where would I be,
Mother sweet mother of mine.

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows;
What are those blue remembered hills;
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot go again.


A.E.Houseman - A Shropshire Lad. In memory of my mother who died 9th June 1986

Thank you for adding to Favourite Poems etc.
Soon I will also start adding on here but helping so many people re their family history, writing to friends and family that there is little time to look on here so once more"Thank you"
Bridget :-)

No problem Bridget. I for one would like to thank you for starting this thread, and making it possible to add poems and relevant 'sayings', to express my thoughts and feelings - much better than 'going on'!!!!

Thanks to everyone who has added recently. An extra thank you to LilyL for her kind comments, I hope she continues to add and share sayings etc

I will add soon

Bridget :-) <3 :-)

Never rely on anything you don't need.

Those who have a 'super gran'
cherish her with care,
For you never know the heartache,
Till you see her vacant chair :-( :-(

"The world is full of solutions to problems that do not yet exist".