message from the good people at Radio 4:
"I just wanted to let you know that we'll be featuring the poem that you requested – 'St Agnes Eve' by John Keats- in Poetry Please on Sunday 18th January at 4.30pm on Radio 4. Apologies for the short notice. The programme will be repeated on Saturday 24th January at 11.30pm and is available via listen again on the Radio 4 website."
thinking about it, I have to cast my mind back to a long long time ago now, when I lived in The Village and
"I just wanted to let you know that we'll be featuring the poem that you requested – 'St Agnes Eve' by John Keats- in Poetry Please on Sunday 18th January at 4.30pm on Radio 4. Apologies for the short notice. The programme will be repeated on Saturday 24th January at 11.30pm and is available via listen again on the Radio 4 website."
thinking about it, I have to cast my mind back to a long long time ago now, when I lived in The Village and
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and
and
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
perhaps I won't go there. . .
and
and
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
perhaps I won't go there. . .
suffice it to say that "everything comes to those who wait" (well, somethings do: poetry, seemingly, in this case) - I put in this request more than two years ago (but can still remember making it)
quite suitable for the weather, wouldn't you say:
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St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold. . .
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The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold. . .
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KEATS
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
~ D.H. Lawrence
he obviously never set eyes on a cat. . .
More than 2 years?
How strange.
cats don't count, they're just tiny demons come to Earth.
Shot cat's do so count!
KAZ it might even be three - I knew the delightful Sir Roger from The Village and can remember seeing the Poetry Please request slips in one of the coffee shops, filling it in (probably on a really really cold day like today) and handing it to his wife (who I also knew) - had totally forgotten, as it was so long ago, until they emailed me this morning
now I have to work out how to find Radio 4 on my new stereo thingy. . .
do NOT discount the demons
although it is kinda cool that you request has resurfaced after all of this time...
Isn't that the one where someone throws their goolies on someone's breast?
Filth.
"goolies"?
And I know for a fact that cats don't count. Their tiny brains can't grasp the concept of numbers, particularly zero or fractions.
Yes, goolies. About 25 verses in. Although I doubt whether anybody ever gets that far.
I was required to "study" selected poems of Mr Keats for A-level, including this one. Despite that, i still quite enjoy them.
what are you like? I pop out for a couple of hours and come back to talk of breasts
sorry Steg, I don't mean you. . .
I studied it in the third or fourth year, not for 'O'-level
can only recite the first four lines tho. . .
katherine are you a cat or a dog person or a no pet person?
EXCUSE ME!
It was Keats who was the original titman, and fixated by breasts. NOT ME!
And you were the one who started writing about him.
So please be careful where you lay the blame.
dear sweet Vicus please don't fret! I can assure you, indeed I think I already have, that noone is blaming anyone for anything. . .
no blame, no shame
and what's wrong with talking about breasts anyhow? (I didn't complain, did I, just pointed it out) that's not filth
filth is what happens when you roll around in the mud and don't go for a shower afterwards
or something similar
<---ignoring the discussion of breastage
I am a dog person. Not little yappy lappy dogs...no offense to anyone, and not stupid dogs either.
Although my younger sister and BOTH my daughters have a love affair with the feline...so there has always been a least one underfoot.
I should post about the time we had thirteen kittens.
holey moley.
we have had twenty two cats during the short life of Mini-Teen. . . XCH and I had five before that. . .
what sort of dog then? please don't say labradoodle. . . for some reason I can't take them seriously
Wow! What long memories these radio people have! They must live in a different time scale to the rest of us :)
Dogs and cats are just nice to have around as long as they behave :) And when they don't they make good after-dinner and over-coffee stories.
I know you like your animals Mig - and I always enjoy the photos
one little piece of paper must have been very very carefully filed - unless they have a list which is about two or three years' worth of requests long!
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