by phillipw | Sep 21, 2019 | FR
Patriotism and Pals ……………..Francis Bacon, Wikipedia 0 Francis Bacon, author of two early English essays on friendship, played a major legal role in the trial of his friend, the Earl of Essex, helping to get him...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2019 | Ho, SI
The Torn Shirt Morning 0 Your stream of frank sincerity has talked Him out of love—of loving you, I mean— Attempts at sentiment too often blocked By honesty from you. The desperate, keen, Pathetic fire he fanned inside his heart Was doused and doused and doused...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2019 | LO
Complete Mystery of Life 0 “Nature, red in tooth and claw” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson 0 Can it be possible to tell the truth? We doubt it, if we’ve ever known its height, And depths, and breadth. It isn’t in the booth We call religion,...