Mother's Day 2009
Happy Mother's Day to all the excellent moms I know...Am, Camille, LiaLia, Kath, Linder Loo, Alison, Jen, Stef, Pamela, and on and on. And me too! And to my mama, who never let us want for a thing and taught us how to love and, by example, to be strong women. Sending a big bunch of celestial Irises to you, Vi.
Sonnets are Full of Love
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.
Christina Rossetti
Happy Mother's Day to all the excellent moms I know...Am, Camille, LiaLia, Kath, Linder Loo, Alison, Jen, Stef, Pamela, and on and on. And me too! And to my mama, who never let us want for a thing and taught us how to love and, by example, to be strong women. Sending a big bunch of celestial Irises to you, Vi.
Sonnets are Full of Love
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.
Christina Rossetti
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