I kept a commonplace book during my misspent youth (which preceded my considerably longer misspent adulthood). It was a loose-leaf binder into which I copied or glued poems, quotations, photos, flowers, and anything else that caught my attention. It wasn't intended to be a "BEST OF..." project; I included things I considered horrid as well as those I enjoyed.

Things were always spilling out, and I spent considerable amounts of time picking them up and putting them back in the binder. My hardcopy pages show coffee and spaghetti sauce stains; my computer table has similar discolorations.

Before my third birthday, someone noticed I was reading; I've been reading voraciously, omnivorously ever since. Here are some of my likes and dislikes. 'Course, I can't read a lot and keep up with my web pages, too, so sometimes I add items rather slowly. *Sigh*


Here are a few of my favorites:

Selected Poems, Songs, Epigrams, Fragments (Some graphically dense files may load slowly)

ANONYMOUS "Winter Cold" (Irish author) and "Winter" (Welsh author) [Select] A. E. HOUSEMAN "Loveliest of Trees" [Select] Five more poems from A Shropshire Lad [Select] MISCELLANY Celtic epigrams [Select] Short poems [Select] CHRISTINA ROSSETTI "Song" (When I am dead, my dearest) [Select] TRADITIONAL SONGS "Calon Lān" [Select] WILLIAM WORDSWORTH "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" [Select] WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS "The Cat and the Moon" [Select] "The Fish" " [Select] "He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" [Select]

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"Girl Reading" by Charles F. Perugini (1839-1918).
Original is in Manchester City Art Gallery.

"Gentle Lady" midi courtesy Tom Williams II.

We miss you, Lady Dj

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