“When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press’d with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not Adamant!”
(Thomas Hood, 1799-1845)
John Lentell
September 23rd, 1968
Month: May 2010
Monday’s Piece
“It is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world.”
(Yeats, 1865 – 1939)
John Lentell
September 22nd, 1968
Sunday’s Piece
“Or to some coffee- house I stray,
For news, the manna of a day,
And from the hipp’d discourse gather
That politics go by the weather.”
(Matthew Green, 1696 – 1737)
John Lentell
September 21st, 1968
Saturday’s Piece
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
(Ulysses S. Grant, 1822 – 1885)
John Lentell
September 20th, 1968
Friday’s Piece
“She wears a chiffon nightie
In the summer when it’s hot.
She wears her woolly panties
In the winter when it’s not.
But often in the springtime,
And sometimes in the fall,
She slips between the sheets
With nothing on at all.”
(Lyric from parody on “The Merry Widow Waltz”)
John Lentell
September 19th, 1968
Soup du jour
In his time, John’s piece for the day absolutely aroused a wide spectrum of opinions and occasional emotive reaction. See LD’s memory for some insights.
Just so you know, I decided early on in this publishing venture to post every single “piece” I have, in the chronological order they were published originally. I’m not applying any editorial selectivity (which inevitably would reflect my subjective opinion, whatever that may be in this day and age and personal circumstance).
I started out being selective but quickly found myself in a moral dilemma – who was I to decide which “piece” might be interesting or worthy. John absolutely would have disapproved. I wrote a post about it early on.
So, please accept and be happily provoked by whatever comes each day, just as it happened in print 40 odd years ago. If nothing else, John would have enjoyed being provocative, in the purest sense.
Gour
Thursday’s Piece
“Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes;
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven’t the heart to poke poor Billy.”
(Ruthless Rhymes – Harry Graham, 1874 – 1936)
John Lentell
September 18th, 1968
Wednesday’s Piece
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
(William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
September 17th, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
“Ah! when shall all men’s good
Be each man’s rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land?”
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
September 16th, 1968
Monday’s Piece
“For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have Crossed the Bar.”
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
September 15th, 1968
Sunday’s Piece
“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous – licentious – abominable – infernal – Not that I ever read them – no – I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
(Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 – 1816)
John Lentell
September 14th, 1968
Saturday’s Piece
“Oft-times in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.”
(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
John Lentell
September 13th, 1968
Lentell Soup 