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HPLOVECRAFT: The Silver Key (Read by Charles Bryant) Anyone who says that HPLovecraft is a shallow thinker and an incompetent author, has not read the opening paragraphs of his story "The Silver Key" - the complete text of which is available on the Net. I cannot help but consider that these paragraphs give us an additional key - a key to the understanding of this somewhat over-reserved and hesitant man. They reveal him as sharing the melancholy of the 19th century Romantic Movement in early ...

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This poem comes with much baggage, all of which can be found on the Net for those who are interested. It is one of the seminal hymn-poems of the British nation and should not be allowed to fade away, which is why I am reading it here. Our heritage is to be honoured, not reviled as has been the fashion over the last few decades. Mercifully, the tide is now rapidly turning and we can celebrate what we were and are. FOR REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: IN MEMORIAM PETER FRANK HENRY KINGMAN Urbs Dei or The ...

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This is my take on the much loved verses of the Chinese poet Tao Yuan Ming, also known as Tao Chien, 365-427. It is also in part an 'apologia pro vita sua' and an autobiographical statement. The photographs are of my partner and me, our house and garden and the koi carp we used to keep. Tennyson asked that his poem 'Crossing the Bar' should be printed at the end of his collected poems. If ever my poetry is collected, I think that this poem would serve a similar purpose! Tao Yuan Ming: Return ...

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This reading is dedicated to the happy memory of our much loved, much mourned friend Elizabeth, untied now from all restraint, eternally in the Oneness of Love's Unity. Blessed be she. TO THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME, THE NAME OF JESUS, A HYMN by Richard Crashaw (?1613-1649) PART TWO Come, lovely Name; life of our hope! Lo we hold our Hearts wide ope! Unlock thy Cabinet of Day Dearest Sweet, and come away. Lo how the thirsty Lands Gasp for thy Golden Showres! with longstretch't Hands. Lo how ...

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I think it is true that much of the best English verse is devotional in nature, but you don't have to be a Christian to appreciate the many wonders of this poem. TO THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME, THE NAME OF JESUS, A HYMN by Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649) I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; our Good: Our Blisse: and Supernaturall Blood: The Name of All our Lives and Loves. Hearken, And Help, ye holy Doves! The high-born Brood of Day; you ...

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HIPPOLYTUS by Charles Bryant Dressed in white linen, garlanded his hair, Hippolytus' expression was severe, inflamed poor Phaedra's heart. She, shut in her peeping temple, must observe (who cannot help but see) the strength and poise of that most handsome he, stepson and presumptive heir to Troezen and her bitter shore. Running, leaping, wrestling; naked quite, he parades his graceful strength before her hidden sight. Taking the jewelled hairpin from her hair she pierces leaves of myrtle in ...

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'I saw eternity the other night like a great ring of pure and endless light.' (Henry Vaughan) 'the marriage-ring of eternity' (William Blake? -Or was it me myself?) My debt to the definitions of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is apparent in the body of the poem! INFINITY-ETERNITY Jewelled finger circled with studded gold in which a band of diamond brightly sparkles, Time's Pleiades, epiphenomenal aspect of eternity married to infinity with this ring. Without beginning or end, existing ...

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I give here the notes from which this short talk began. I made these notes and this video in the morning, unaware of their full import as a prelude. Immediately following my afternoon siesta (these things work best in the unconscious while I sleep) I wrote the poem which is to be the subject of my next video reading and which is entitled Infinity-Eternity. * * * * * * * * I have had an epiphany. An epiphany is a manifestation of the divine or superhuman. It stemmed from a meditation on the ...

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In everyday life I am a shy retiring creature :) But when it comes to art, and especially poetry, and most especially my own poetry, I am as boastful and as cocksure as any disgusting politician - and our time sees a surfeit of such 'statesmen'! So much so, that when I look at this translation (which is English poetry at its best) - this translation which was more than a year in the making, I feel like crowing its splendour from every chicken hutch in the country. If any work of mine should ...

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This poem is unremarkable, just your everyday psycho-drama (we all have them!). The picture came before the poem. Ever since I began writing poetry, illustrations of all and any sort have been an unending source of inspiration. The eye inspires the voice. The final word of the poem 'fell' may need an explanation. It is an adjective that is now, as the Shorter Oxford Dictionary tells us, mainly 'poet. or rhet.' - that is, poetical or rhetorical; and it means 'fierce, savage, cruel, ruthless ...

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