Channel Firing
That night your great guns, unawares
The madness and inevitability of war
That night your great guns, unawares
The madness and inevitability of war
The sea is calm tonight
A bleak but beautiful reflection on 19th-century life by Matthew Arnold.
Westbrook on love and family.
Paradise Lost Book 1, lines 1 - 26
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
The opening lines of Milton's great epic
Emma Woodhouse was no retiring mouse
Troilus and Cressida, Act III Scene 3
I do believe it, for they pass'd by me
Ulysses suggests that celebrities cannot rest on their laurels.
The Queen and I meet almost every day
Menelaus takes stock
Across the way see San Lorenzo stand
J de S Westbrook on hidden beauties.
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way
The first lines of the Odyssey, translated by George Chapman in a version admired by Keats