tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91836412198477335932011-07-07T18:58:14.542-07:00WebCTBeckBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532425764566628821noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183641219847733593.post-20321250747342131962008-07-17T11:55:00.000-07:002008-07-17T11:59:12.919-07:00The road goes ever, ever on<div>Down from the door where it began, </div><div>Now far ahead the road has gone</div><div>And I must follow if I can</div><div>Pursuing it with eager feet</div><div>Until it joins some larger way</div><div>Where many paths and errands meet</div><div>And wither then?  I cannot say</div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9183641219847733593-2032125074734213196?l=bilbo-of-the-shire.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>WebCTBeckBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532425764566628821noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183641219847733593.post-56025188049841396152008-07-17T11:48:00.000-07:002008-07-17T11:53:54.911-07:00Stay, shadow of contentment too short-lived,<div>illusion of enchantment I most prize,</div><div>fair image for whom happily I die,</div><div>sweet fiction for whom painfully I live.</div><div>  If answering your charms' imperative,</div><div>compliant, I like steel to magnet fly,</div><div>by what logic do you flatter and entice,</div><div>only to flee, a taunting fugitive?</div><div> 'Tis no triumph that you so smugly boast</div><div>that I fell victim to your tyranny;</div><div>though from encircling bonds that held you fast</div><div>  your elusive for too readily slipped free,</div><div>and though to my arms you are forever lost,</div><div>you are a prisoner in my fantasy.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is one of my favorite poems, it is by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz</div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9183641219847733593-5602518804984139615?l=bilbo-of-the-shire.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>WebCTBeckBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532425764566628821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9183641219847733593.post-58299462903179032202008-07-17T11:36:00.000-07:002008-07-17T11:37:39.737-07:00This blog is just launched in order to discuss some of my favorite literature, which I'll be updating periodically.  <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9183641219847733593-5829946290317903220?l=bilbo-of-the-shire.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>WebCTBeckBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532425764566628821noreply@blogger.com0