August 27, 2011
July 28, 2011
June 27, 2011
May 29, 2011
April 15, 2011
April 10, 2011
April 5, 2011

I heard this song three times (in one place) the other night. It really doesn’t get old.

April 1, 2011

England’s dancing days are done…

March 16, 2011
March 14, 2011
March 6, 2011

Maire Macrae’s Song

The singer is old and has forgotten
Her girlhood’s grief for the young soldier
Who sailed away across the ocean,
Love’s brief joy and lonely sorrow:
The song is older than the singer.

The song is older than the singer
Shaped by the love and the long waiting
Of women dead and long forgotten
Who sang before remembered time
To teach the unbroken heart its sorrow.

The girl who waits for her young soldier
Learns from the cadence of a song
How deep her love, how long the waiting.
Sorrow is older than the heart,
Already old when love is young,
The song is older than the sorrow. 

- Kathleen Raine

February 16, 2011
February 6, 2011