Showing posts with label H. E. Bates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. E. Bates. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Daily Dose

From Through the Woods: The English Woodland -- April to April, by H. E. Bates

SUMMER AND AUTUMN

"Summer and Autumn fuse into each other imperceptibly, the point of fusion lost in some period of September humidity, in the mild wonder of too-soft days."

From The Heart of Autumn

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Clerihew in Need of Reprinting

H. E. BATES

H. E. Bates
Sits and waits
To again be re-covered
And thus rediscovered.

Daily Dose

From Sugar for the Horse, by H. E. Bates

SOFT

"Everybody's stopped enjoyin' theirselves. Everybody's gittin' too 'umbuggin' soft by half."

From The Fire Eaters