Poetry Please! a Sunday poem

No Firstborn Ever Spoke Thus©
1.
Where, where have you been, son?
Your supper lay untouched for all to see;
The sitting down to sup was fit
For feast unto the dead.
Do you not think we care?
‘Mother, you are easily moved to care
But stronger than hunger you made me.’
No firstborn ever spoke thus.
2.
Where, where have you been, son?
Your brethren stopped [...]

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Honour Lists

While William IV urged Melbourne to accept the Garter he remarked,”A Garter may attract to us somebody of consequence which nothing else can reach. But what is the good of my taking it? I can’t bribe myself.”
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In those days most important church appointments carried political implications. Despite all efforts to avoid a storm it would [...]

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre-1948

Taking a story of three vagrants on “the beach” in Mexico who pool their scratchy resources and go hunting for gold in the desolate hills is as old as ‘dem hills.’ Who can resist such a lure of the dangers of desolate places if pots of gold were guaranteed at the end? Greed has never [...]

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