In high school, one of my English teachers required each person to select and memorize one of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This one, sonnet 29, is the one I selected. I think we all have times when we feel alone, down on our luck, and wishing we had qualities and talents we admire in others. (Why is [...]
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXIX
Posted in Poems, tagged Poetry, Shakespeare, sonnets on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Patriotic Poetry Gone Awry…
Posted in Poems, tagged family traditions, Fourth of July, Poems on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As we get closer to the Fourth of July holiday, I like to teach my children patriotic poems that I memorized from my school days. Since they’re currently five, they most enjoy funny poems (especially double dactyls, like this one). When I looked online for the author’s name for a poem I distinctly remembered, I [...]
Patriotic Poetry
Posted in Poems, tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Patriotic poems, Poems on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we approach the Fourth of July, I’m beginning to turn to great patriotic poems. I first heard this poem watching the made-for-TV-movie, The First Olympics. One of the characters, a marathon runner, used the meter of the poem to set his running rhythm. The first stanza is one that frequently pops into my head. [...]
