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Welcome

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A Few by Kirk

• A Lad He Learns
• Three Brothers
• A Scouts Days of the Week
• A Love Potion
• Invitation
• A Solitary Selkie
• Moonbeams &
  Faerie-Dust
• Wood-Nymph
• Perspective
• Song of Childness

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A Few Favorites

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Omar Khayam
Rubaiyat

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Rudyard Kipling
Just so Stories

Home of 'Poetry Aloud'

Иван Билибин / Ivan Bilibin -   ~ Из Сказки/ from his 'Folktales'

A Love Potion:

In my own voice

Eye of nymph, and wink of cat,

Heart of tigress, and tender tongue—combine;

Secrets from faerie smiles distill with that.

To bring beauty and grace—add bones feline.

Badger's brav'ry, with wit of wily fox;

Add owl's own wisdom—Wash with winter's snow.

Brew in blood of the waves that wear down rocks.

Simmer long over heartwood, burning slow.

Make eyes of moonbeams lock'd in lapis stone;

Form skin from pearls; mold face like fawning doe;

Shape figure as slender as naiad known.

—Quicken with mountain-mist and morning glow.

By half dose, this mends well an ailing heart;

By whole dose, he falls hostage to her art.

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