Vaughan’s “Palm Sunday” draws its energy from spring growth.
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Strow the Way, Plants of the Day
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Few trees are more beautiful in blossom than the cherry, now in full flower in the National Arboretum. A.E. Housman knew this well.
Austen Defines “the Best Company”
Austen’s Anne Eliott describes “good company” in a way that captures our own friendships.
Master, Speak to Us of Friendship
As we travel around the country refreshing friendships, I think of what Kahlil Gibran says about the subject.
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Spring, the Sweet Spring!
A joyous Thomas Nashe poem to welcome in the new season.
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A Bookstore and the Library of Babel
Attending a good bookstore makes me realize how relatively little I have read. Borges’s “Library of Babel” makes one feel similarly small.
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Here’s to Old Ireland!
A Jean Blewett poem for St. Patrick’s Day.
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