Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up...

A Candlemas Dialogue by Christina Rossetti 'Love brought Me down: and cannot love make thee Carol for joy to Me? Hear cheerful robi...

A great many of my poems start during a walk. Unsurprisingly, this one started while walking at night; if I recall correctly, it was a bit d...

I started putting up poems here, both those of others and drafts of my own, in part as a philosophical activity; I had become exasperated at...

Lauren O'Connell, "Heart of Gold". A Neil Young song, of course.

Thought for the Evening: Baptism of Desire Boniface over the Christmas break recommended a number of works criticizing the notion of bapti...

Chapter 1: A few years before, Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early; and as even in its height, her fa...