Poets Corner

[dumaguetenia]

WINTER'S DELIGHTS.

Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours,
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze,
And cups o'erflow with wine;
Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love,
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep's leaden spells remove.
The time doth well dispense
With lovers' long discourse;
Much speech hath some defence,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well:
Some, measures comely tread,
Some, knotted riddles tell,
Some, poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

_Thomas Campion._

[john boy]

I heard this Scottish Song many years ago and a couple I met on holiday very kindly sent me a copy of the music and words back in 1995.
Title....Haste you back....
Here's my wish to you in parting, As you leave for another shore
May your guiding star be with you, Till you return to me once more
Haste you back I love you dearly, Call again you;re welcome here,
May your days be free from sorrow,
And your friends be ever near,
May the path o'er which you wander Be to you a joy each day.
Haste you back I love you dearly Haste You Back on friendships way.

Words by Robert Wilson
Music by Leslie Sturdy

[john boy]

Christmas 2009

Because it's Christmastime again
I said a little prayer
And sent it up to Heaven
to place it in God's care
The prayer was for your happiness
and for Blessings from above
To fill your days in special ways
with lots of joy and love

Anon; Fiesta Greetings

Merry Christmas to all our subscribers and readers.......JB