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January Poem – Happy New Year

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 1, 2021 - 18:15 January 1, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
Happy New Year

“A happy new year” it will be – if it’s NEW New visions of all that is noble and true,New powers for service, new knowledge of God,New zeal for the… Continue reading

December Poem – The Cold Earth Slept Below

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 4, 2020 - 21:51 December 4, 2020 Blog

The cold earth slept below,Above the cold sky shone;And all around,With a chilling sound,From caves of ice and fields of snow,The breath of night like death did flowBeneath the sinking… Continue reading

“The Hermit” James Beattie

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 25, 2020 - 19:38 October 25, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Augustinian Hermit in a Landscape

At the close of day, when the hamlet is still,And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,And nought but the nightingale’s song… Continue reading

October Leaves

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 2, 2020 - 13:06 October 2, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
October Autumn Leaves

October’s the monthWhen the smallest breezeGives us a showerOf autumn leaves.Bonfires and pumpkins,Leaves sailing down –October is redAnd golden and brown. October leaves are lovelyThey rustle when I runSometimes I… Continue reading

A Seasonal Poem for Autumn

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 3, 2020 - 16:18 September 3, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the… Continue reading

August Poem – Summertime

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 1, 2020 - 17:24 August 1, 2020 Blog
Summertime August Poem by William Allingham

 O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells.  Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm… Continue reading

Sleepy July

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 4, 2020 - 17:45 July 4, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Sweet July - bumble bee purple flowers

Across the open common landshines glowing purple floral bloomsThe bumble bee can hardly stand,as flowers’ scent is rising fumes And lies there in the summer shadea resting deer quite joyfulyfor… Continue reading

Beautiful June

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 3, 2020 - 17:32 June 3, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest

It’s beautiful the Summer month of JuneWhen all of God’s own wildflowers are in bloomAnd sun shines brightly most part of the dayAnd butterflies o’er lush green meadows play. Light… Continue reading

May Books

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 1, 2020 - 15:20 May 1, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Queen Guinevre’s Maying by John Collier [1900]

THERE is May in books forever;May will part from Spenser never;May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior,May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;May’s in all the Italian books:–She has old and modern nooks,Where… Continue reading

“April” by Hannah R. Hudson

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 12, 2020 - 16:50 April 12, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
La Belle Jardiniere – April Eugène Grasset

April has searched the winter landAnd found her petter flowers again;She kissed them to unfold her leaves,She coaxed them with her sun and rain,And filled the grass with green content,And… Continue reading

The North Wind Doth Blow !

  By Litrasaurus Quest March 1, 2020 - 14:31 March 2, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Figures crossing a heath with a brisk wind blowing - Jan van Goyen

March’s poem is “The North Wind Doth Blow” aka “The Robin” … not least because of the weather that we are having at the moment ! The north wind doth… Continue reading

February Poem – Snowdrops

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 9, 2020 - 13:10 February 9, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
February Poem Snowdrops

A small bird twitters on a leafless spray, Across the snow-waste breaks a gleam of gold: What token can I give my friend to-day But February blossoms, pure and cold?… Continue reading

January Poem – Jack Frost

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 8, 2020 - 19:59 January 8, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Jack Frost Window

“Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with… Continue reading

Poem for December

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 18, 2019 - 17:22 December 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Poem for December

It sifts from Leaden Sieves – It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road – It makes an even Face Of Mountain, and… Continue reading

Poem for November

  By Litrasaurus Quest November 2, 2019 - 16:34 December 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Poem For November

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. And yet… Continue reading

October Gave A Party – Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 20, 2019 - 19:27 October 20, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came – The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss… Continue reading

“September” John Updike

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 7, 2019 - 18:35 October 21, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

“The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive,… Continue reading

The Swing – a poem for Summer

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 7, 2019 - 14:42 August 7, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up… Continue reading

July Poem – Summer Sun

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 1, 2019 - 11:26 July 1, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
In the Garden by Robert Reid

Great is the sun, and wide he goesThrough empty heaven without repose;And in the blue and glowing daysMore thick than rain he showers his rays. Though closer still the blinds… Continue reading

June – Francis Duggan

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 5, 2019 - 09:01 June 5, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

It’s beautiful the Summer month of June When all of God’s own wildflowers are in bloom And sun shines brightly most part of the day And butterflies o’er lush green… Continue reading

A May Poem by Milton

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 18, 2019 - 20:41 May 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Spring Cowslips

This month’s poem is “On May Morning” by John Milton NOW the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,Comes dancing from the East, and leads with herThe Flowry May, who from her… Continue reading

Early Spring Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 2, 2019 - 17:43 April 4, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

This April we are featuring William Wordsworth.We tweeted, as a meme, an extract from “The Green Linnet” at the start of the month. We really wanted to post this poem,… Continue reading

“New Life” by Jumping Jules

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 28, 2019 - 15:29 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Jumping Jules

With Spring definitely in the air right now, March’s poem on LitraQuest is “New Life” by Litrasaurus’ latest guest author Jumping Jules The excitement that spring can bring I feel… Continue reading

February Poem Snow-flakes

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 3, 2019 - 13:50 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow… Continue reading

“On Children” by Khalil Gibran

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 6, 2019 - 11:06 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with… Continue reading

January Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 1, 2019 - 15:28 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

  “The door was shut, as doors should be,Before you went to bed last night;Yet Jack Frost has got in, you see,And left your window silver white.He must have waited… Continue reading

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 23, 2018 - 15:11 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance… Continue reading

December Poem – an extract from “Marmion” by Sir Walter Scott

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 1, 2018 - 19:39 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
“In the Golden Gloaming” (1883) by John Atkinson Grimshaw

    When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away; When short and scant the sunbeam throws, Upon the weary waste of snows, A cold and… Continue reading

November Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest November 2, 2018 - 10:33 March 6, 2019 Blog
"Autumn" Konstantin Korovin (1888)

    “How silently they tumble down And come to rest upon the ground To lay a carpet, rich and rare, Beneath the trees without a care, Content to sleep,… Continue reading

The Angels Of Babel

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 31, 2018 - 14:00 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

Right now the world needs more, possibly more than anything else, empathy – that most humanising of abilities to understand and share the feelings of others. One of the most… Continue reading

October Poem – Pumpkin

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 1, 2018 - 11:57 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Pumpkins

    “When all the cows were sleeping And the sun had gone to bed, Up jumped the pumpkin, And this is what he said: I’m a dingle dangle pumpkin… Continue reading

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 2, 2018 - 15:57 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Westminster Hall and Bridge circa 1810

The poem we have chosen to feature this month is “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth     Earth has not anything to show more fair:… Continue reading

The sun was shining on the sea …

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 12, 2018 - 09:48 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll

Summer is here, along with the Silly Season, so what better excuse to share some wonderful Nonsense Verse !   The Walrus and the Carpenter By Lewis Carroll “The sun… Continue reading

Poem For July

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 2, 2018 - 12:46 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
In a House - Sergei Arsenevich Vinogradov

“Summer Sun” by Robert Louis Stevenson   Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven without repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than… Continue reading

May Poems

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 17, 2018 - 14:55 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
"A Garden in Spring" by Helen Allingham

This month we couldn’t make our minds up … so we have got two poems for you !     First a short verse by Heinrich Heine   Sweet May… Continue reading

Wordsworth “Through primrose tufts …”

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 7, 2018 - 08:55 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
The Primrose Gatherers - John Clayton Adams

“Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And ’tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and… Continue reading

“Two Tramps in Mud Time” by Robert Frost

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 3, 2018 - 07:44 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
"April" Mathias J Alten

Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily “Hit them hard!”… Continue reading

March Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest March 8, 2018 - 13:48 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

  Spring I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are… Continue reading

If children read it transforms their lives

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 10, 2018 - 19:39 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

Reading is extra-ordinarily powerful, particularly when one is young. The act of reading, that process of converting words on a page into concepts and images in one’s head, along with… Continue reading

A Poem For February

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 4, 2018 - 10:45 March 6, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Narcissus

  Hillside Narcissus by Nora McFarlane There’s a grassy slope not far away Where thousands of Narcissus bloom, And I catch my breath, as I watch them sway Tossing their… Continue reading

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