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Black Venus (Picador Books) by Angela Carter
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Notable American Women: A Novel by Ben Marcus
Mammoth Book of New Erotica by Maxim Jakubowski
Barometer Rising (New Canadian Library) by Hugh Maclennan
I, Elizabeth: A Novel by Rosalind Miles
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
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Currently readingThe Sound of My Waves by Ko Un
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin
Mystical Doctrine of St. John of the Cross by R.H.J. Steuart
The Holy Quran by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
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~Mary Howitt
Buttercups and daisies-
Oh the pretty flowers,
Coming ere the springtime
To tell of sunny hours.
While the trees are leafless,
While the fields are bare,
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.
Ere the snowdrop peepeth,
Ere the croscus bold,
Ere the early primrose
Opes its paly gold,
Somewhere on a sunny bank
Buttercups are bright;
Somewhere 'mong the frozen grass
Peeps the daisy white.
Little hardy flowers
Like to children poor,
Playing in their sturdy health
By their mother's door:
Purple with the north wind,
Yet alert and bold;
Fearing not and caring not,
Though they be a-cold.
What to them is weather!
What are stormy showers!
Buttercups and daisies
Are these human flowers!
He who gave them hardship
And a life of care,
Gave them likewise hardy strength,
And patient hearts, to bear.
Welcome yellow buttercups,
Welcome daisies white,
Ye are in my spirit
Visioned, a delight!
Coming ere the springtime
Of sunny hours to tell-
Speaking to our hearts of Him
Who doeth all things well.
posted by theoldman at 8:30 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009