Adventures In Keeping House

 Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday. This song of his never gets old... Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil...

I have been following a discussion about whether a Christian should ever sacrifice his life for Christ/his convictions and teach his childre...

I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name: In you not fourscore years can dim the flame Of lo...

Saturday Poetry Hour brings you this: It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- ...

Publius Horatius, that is. Horatius was an officer in the Roman army which defended the city against the Etruscan king Lars Porsena. Toget...

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept...

Are you ever being visited by a Googlebot? It´s a serious question! Spyware has become more advanced so now I can see what browser my visito...

The Elvenking by J.W. Goethe is probably one of the creepiest stories of Western literature. I remembered it while driving through a German ...

Yesterday while visiting family I saw an interesting TV program. Now I may have missed some details as by obvious reasons I couldn't giv...

"But what are we to do?" said Susan... "My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp ...

H/t to Miriam from Finland. I thought it was too good to get buried in the comments. Here is what Miriam wrote: It's all about 24t...

Gipsy Trail by R. Kipling: The white moth to the closing bine, The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy blood Ev...

I had to learn this poem by William Henry Davies at school. It's a good illustration of the point I was trying to make in my previous po...

Abraham Davenport was an American politician who became prominent during the American Revolution. He also served as a colonel in Connecticut...

Marcus Atilius Regulus was a Roman consul and general, who was taken prisoner by Carthaginians in 255 B.C. and charged by them with negotia...

I remember this poem produced a lasting impression on me when I first read it as a teenager. It's considered one of the most significant...

Modern Western society is chiefly based on humanism which is described by a Longman dictionary I possess as " a system of beliefs and s...

Found at Project Gutenberg: the complaint of a divorced man from the year 1709. Called The Pleasures of A Single Life, Or The Miseries of Ma...

by Robert W. Service: "Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; ...

Just a bit of poetry for the Father's Day.  IF, by R. Kipling IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and bl...