tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post8644704855407530491..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: The (almost dead on) ArrivalElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-3754514709193193592008-07-22T08:27:00.000-04:002008-07-22T08:27:00.000-04:00Elizabeth,Let me try to find some poetry to sleep,...Elizabeth,<BR/>Let me try to find some poetry to sleep, perchance to dream with.<BR/><BR/><I>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</I><BR/><B>The Pains of Sleep</B><BR/><BR/>Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, <BR/>It hath not been my use to pray <BR/>With moving lips or bended knees ; <BR/>But silently, by slow degrees, <BR/>My spirit I to Love compose,<BR/>In humble trust mine eye-lids close, <BR/>With reverential resignation, <BR/>No wish conceived, no thought exprest, <BR/>Only a sense of supplication ; <BR/>A sense o'er all my soul imprest<BR/>That I am weak, yet not unblest, <BR/>Since in me, round me, every where <BR/>Eternal Strength and Wisdom are. <BR/>But yester-night I prayed aloud<BR/>In anguish and in agony,<BR/>Up-starting from the fiendish crowd<BR/>Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me :<BR/>A lurid light, a trampling throng,<BR/>Sense of intolerable wrong,<BR/>And whom I scorned, those only strong !<BR/>Thirst of revenge, the powerless will<BR/>Still baffled, and yet burning still !<BR/>Desire with loathing strangely mixed<BR/>On wild or hateful objects fixed.<BR/>Fantastic passions ! maddening brawl !<BR/>And shame and terror over all !<BR/>Deeds to be hid which were not hid,<BR/>Which all confused I could not know<BR/>Whether I suffered, or I did :<BR/>For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe,<BR/>My own or others still the same<BR/>Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.<BR/>So two nights passed : the night's dismay<BR/>Saddened and stunned the coming day.<BR/>Sleep, the wide blessing, seemed to me<BR/>Distemper's worst calamity.<BR/>The third night, when my own loud scream<BR/>Had waked me from the fiendish dream,<BR/>O'ercome with sufferings strange and wild,<BR/>I wept as I had been a child ;<BR/>And having thus by tears subdued<BR/>My anguish to a milder mood,<BR/>Such punishments, I said, were due<BR/>To natures deepliest stained with sin,--<BR/>For aye entempesting anew<BR/>The unfathomable hell within,<BR/>The horror of their deeds to view,<BR/>To know and loathe, yet wish and do !<BR/>Such griefs with such men well agree,<BR/>But wherefore, wherefore fall on me ?<BR/>To be beloved is all I need,<BR/>And whom I love, I love indeed.<BR/><BR/>Nite, NiteBillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623709712119761741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-48833447773684540122008-07-22T00:21:00.000-04:002008-07-22T00:21:00.000-04:00Give my warmest best to Margaret Rose! (We served...Give my warmest best to Margaret Rose! (We served on the HDS Alum Council together and last saw each other at the Urban Caucus when it met here in NC a year-plus ago.)<BR/><BR/>And have fun with Allie, Luiz, et al.<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to your writing.Jane Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814517077774999407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-54655276801708840312008-07-21T22:42:00.000-04:002008-07-21T22:42:00.000-04:00Oh no, hon...where I come from, the phrase "She lo...Oh no, hon...where I come from, the phrase "She looks like she was rode hard and put up wet" implies a certain level of promiscuity and sleaziness! Your weariness is more like, "I feel like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest."Kirkepiscatoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651684515435040529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-13083119119598436982008-07-21T20:18:00.000-04:002008-07-21T20:18:00.000-04:00So thrilled to read this - and anxious to see what...So thrilled to read this - and anxious to see what is to come.<BR/><BR/>Many, many prayers for one and all.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-8325625052207573002008-07-21T18:44:00.000-04:002008-07-21T18:44:00.000-04:00The New Joisey Eagle has landed!Wonderful news!Dav...The New Joisey Eagle has landed!<BR/><BR/>Wonderful news!<BR/><BR/><BR/>David@MontrealDavid@Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08447479118332347163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-29164736062694876732008-07-21T17:56:00.000-04:002008-07-21T17:56:00.000-04:00My dear one, Just getting back from NOLA and the r...My dear one, <BR/><BR/>Just getting back from NOLA and the reunion and attempting to catch up on sleep, and my reading.<BR/>btw, Lambeth made the news on two local channels there. Two very different angles - one focused on big Pete, and the other on +Gene. I was surprised at the quality of the research and writing.<BR/>Of course you are in my daily prayers. <BR/>Queen Victoria awaits your return to the beach.<BR/>Love I send you.<BR/><BR/>PS: I was going to "attack" someone, but I can't think of anyone at the moment.the cajunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10905358111623645338noreply@blogger.com