Clapping linen
This seems to mean something like smoothing out and folding linen, though it would baffle people now.
'Mary...
The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
Of tea and stars
A charming juxtaposition of homeliness and magnificence - people drinking tea but noticing a sky sprinkled with stars.
The impatient shout of a thrush
A few years ago I noted Keats' delight in a thrush in his garden, and so found a kindred...
Many-coloured sea
This simple line from a journal, a near haiku of beauty.
'The moon, a many-coloured sea and sky.'Â Â ...
Dancing leaves
They do spin and pirouette in a gusty autumn breeze, and I liked this reference to a rag blown in...
Need some negus?
A hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spice, named after a Colonel Francis Negus (d. 1732), who invented it. ...
Waiting for the post
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals were written in the closing years of the 18th century and the opening years of the 19th,...
Syke (or sike)
Scottish & N. English: Alternative spelling of 'sike' meaning a small stream or rill, typically one that flows through marshy...
New-dropped lamb
You can see the wobbly gait of these fragile newborns.
'Young lambs in a green pasture in the...
On life and writing: the fast and the slow of it
I was charmed by Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, wishing I could reverse time's arrow to accompany her on a walk to...
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