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I'm a book-collector of Early Printed English works, mainly in the genres of British History and Law, also collecting English vellum documents of the middle ages & renaissance with the same interest. The poets in my collection are typically of the forgotten sort, though I do enjoy the great English classics most of all. I'm also a charcoal-pencil artist, most often drawing ruined castles. For music I am particularly enthusiastic of Early Music, from the anonymous monks to Dunstable, Taverner, Tallis, etc. The past couple of years I've been very much distant from poetry, focusing more on studying history, teaching myself palaeography, and developing my collections.

"In off the moors, down through the mist-bands,
God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping."
~ Beowulf.

"But vertue is vnknowne till it be tride."
~ Ieruis Markham (Tragedie of Grinuile, 1595).

"Wel oghten we to doon al our entente,
Lest that the feend thurgh ydelnesse us hente."
~Chaucer, 2nd nun's tale.

Last seen on Nov 5 2:04 PM. Member since May 18, 2004.
I'm a topaz horse poet for 13 comments.
My mood is , and quote is "VOLO SCIO, EGO NECESSITATIS SCIO IAM".
I am a 24 year old man (Canada)
When I'm not writing, I'm an Antiquarian.
I support the site as a silver member
I have 13 comments, 1 column, 27 poems

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Unfinished projects

Poems I'm focused on

Fairies Lair (Saxon Knight)

The knight began to throw boulders,
Rocks as wide as twelve men round;

293 lines, 8 comments, December 26, 2007
The Lazy Muse

Say, lazy Muse, how about a rhyme?
Something to feed my starved stock and store.

70 lines, 5 comments, November 30, 2006. In Nature, Winter, Christmas
Snowy Scene of Spring

Snowflakes fall from a lifeless sky
To repose upon each gladful flower.

12 lines, 1 comment, February 25, 2006. In Nature, Love

My Poetry

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The Ancient Youth

The mirror shows a face of youth,
But I have an inner lense:

34 lines, 3 comments, May 16, 2008. In Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Other, Lost love, My life, Sadness, Self, Humanity
Introversion Superior

The tongue is usurper of the mind,
Like Cromwell warts and all.

14 lines, 3 comments, May 16, 2008. In Other, Life, Thoughts
Lines On Love

Love, you're a humbug, there's no need for you:
What's a dead foot need with a brand new shoe?"

9 lines, 7 comments, May 6, 2007. In Love

My other items

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Column: On The Age and Poetry of the Minnesingers, Troubadours, &c. Sect. IV. GERMANY (part 2) at
Admiration of his lady's perfections, joy in her smiles, grief at her frowns, and anxiety for her welfare, are expressed by the poet in a thousand accents of simplicity and truth; and if extravagance or affectation sometimes offends, it ought to be recoll
Column: On The Age and Poetry of the Minnesingers, Troubadours, &c. Sect. IV. GERMANY at
Cotemporary, or nearly so, with the most celebrated Troubadours flourished the Minnesingers of Germany. Their poetry was, till of late, almost unknown out of their native land; yet it is decidedly superior to that of their more fortunate rivals. It is the
Column: On The Age and Poetry of the Minnesingers, Troubadours, &c. FRANCE at
Learned controversies have agitated the rival partisans of the Langue d'oc and Langue d'oeil, as to their comparative antiquity, their mutual relations, and the degree of influence on the literature of modern Europe which may properly be ascribed to each.