For Christmas I got lucky:
my nephew gave me a book of recitations ...
... But you, Winter, you're full
Of snow, wind, rain and sleet;
You must banish in exile! Without
flatter I speak plain: Winter
you're a villain.
(Charles d'Orleans)
Illustrated book of children's drawings and photographs, published by Omnibus.
And for fun, to accompany the New Year wishes, here are some verses of Alcaeus of Lesbos, seventh century BC
The sky is low, the wind whistling, whisk divine
collapsing cloud, and water sources freeze. Turns a good
high heat, put honey in your wine,
sleep on soft pillows forgetting ....
And again
Jupiter floods us freezing rain in torrents, the sky is obscured by all the frosts, winter will soon follow up the rivers raging. Hunt this sad winter by our homes shine a flashing flame, filling our glasses of wine most delicious ....
Ah! that we teach young people the beauty of language, fun sounds, the rhythm of words and images they evoke in us ....
Captain Jonathan
Being aged eighteen years
Capture one day a pelican
an island in the Far East
Pelican Jonathan
In atin, lays an egg white
And while it leaves him looking like a pelican
lot
And the second pelican
Pond, his turn an egg white while
Where does inevitably
Another that does the same
This was to last for very long
If we do not make an omelette before
(Robert Desnos)
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