Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge.
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The Lover’s Chronicle
Dear Muse,
you, leanin’ over me,© copyright 2020 mac tag/cowboy coleridge all rights reserved
did she,
does she
even care
s’pose i deserved
to fall
for a female me
so closed and afraid
so much pain
and sufferin’
but i will remember
the tender moments
and wonder…
another life
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Muse, Upturned face
enough of dreams,
hardly
no better place
for the burdened
not on clouds
build thy faith
all too like hope
enough of despair
the breakin’ is broke
no lookin’ back
but therein lies strength,
in dream and deed,
to see through the night
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Slowly, turnin’ pale blue eyes toward you
Softly, your cheek, lips comin’ together
Dyin’ in a divine kiss, wave on wave
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Portrait of Alfred Noyes, by Alexander Bassano, 1922
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Today is the birthday of Alfred Noyes (Wolverhampton; 16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958 Isle of Wight); poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his ballads, “The Highwayman” and “The Barrel-Organ”.
In 1907, Noyes married Garnett Daniels, youngest daughter of US Army Colonel Byron G. Daniels, a Civil War veteran. She died in 1926 at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, where she and Noyes were staying with friends.
In 1927, the year after his first wife’s death, Noyes married Mary Angela née Mayne (1889–1976), widow of Lieutenant Richard Shireburn Weld-Blundell. In 1929, Noyes and Mary Angela settled at Lisle Combe, on the Undercliff near Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
Verse
- Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; - O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.- “The Secret Inn : ‘The Kingdom is Within You'” in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99.
- Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.- “The Secret Inn : ‘The Kingdom is Within You'” in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99.
- A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,
Thoughts without sound;
Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder
And held me bound.- “The Shadow” in The Empire Review (1923) Vol. 37, p. 620.
- Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,
Till the grey dawn.- “The Shadow” in The Empire Review (1923) Vol. 37, p. 620.
The Highwayman (1907)
- The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding —
Riding — riding —
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.
- One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I’m after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light.
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
And today is the birthday of Jean Arp (Jean Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp; Strasbourg, 16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966 Basel, Switzerland); sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Arp and his first wife, the artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, became French nationals in 1926. In the 1930s they bought a piece of land in Clamart and built a house at the edge of a forest. Influenced by the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Taeuber designed it. She died in Zürich in 1943 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. After living in Zürich, Arp was to make Meudon his primary residence again in 1946.
Arp married the collector Marguerite Hagenbach (1902–1994), his long-time companion, in 1959.
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