on 5/1/05 1:17 AM, Rebecca Seiferle at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> that 'thousand years of Tennyson' and that "we all
> thought he was a golfer."
Didn't Joyce call him Alfred Lawn Tennyson...?
and Stephen Vincent wrote:
> "honeysuckle" which grew variously in the neighborhood when I was a kid, and
> now I am drawing up a vague sweet childhood memory of pulling off their
> blossoms to suck out the sweetness
Yes, and Frost's 'To Earthward':
I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.
I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young ...
Max
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