A Clerk of Oxford

This is a 'Song of the North' by Sir Harold Boulton (1859-1935), who also wrote the lyrics to 'The Skye Boat Song'. The dial...

Here's another sweet Scotch song by John Stuart Blackie. In Songs of the North it has the heading 'Health and Joy be with you',...

Who knew? C. S. Lewis wrote a poem called 'Oxford'. Like most of his published poetry, it was written before his conversion to Chr...

This is another Kipling poem which came to my attention through the A Folk Song A Day project, where the Peter Bellamy arrangement was bril...

In the collection of 'random things I like' which is pretty much what this blog is composed of, there has so far been one large omis...

St Guthlac , the Mercian soldier-turned-hermit who founded the abbey of Crowland in Lincolnshire, arrived at his marshy, devil-haunted hermi...

E drizzeremo gli occhi al Primo Amore. - Dante Ma trovo peso non da le mie braccia. - Petrarca If I could trust mine own self with ...