My "Big Orange Book" is a giant blank book into which I copy by hand any texts (poems, quotations, song lyrics, etc.) that move me, provided they are not too long. To view an individual post, click its link below; to view all, click "Big Orange Book" under SELECTED LABELS at right.
A sonnet by Siegfried Sassoon
Emily Dickinson: "Going to Him! Happy letter!"
Robert Frost: "Choose Something Like a Star" (with video of Randall Thompson's choral setting)
Sara Teasdale: sonnet, "To E."
Ellyn Burstyn and Stephen Hough
Enrico Ruggeri: "L'Orrizonte" (with video and translation)
Emily Dickinson: "Ample make this bed," "Heart! We will forget him!"
A beautiful song by Enrico Ruggeri - "Oggetti Smarriti" (with video and translation)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon (with audio of Ralph Vaughan Williams' musical setting)
Maurice Baring: "Vale"
William Cowper & Robert Gibbings
John Dryden: "I feed a flame within, which so torments me"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: "The Philosopher"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Wild Swans"
Sara Teasdale: from "From the Sea"
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