Category Archives: History
Ah! Sunflower
by William Blake in Songs of Experience
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time.
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is doneWhere the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.
Stormy Weather
Clear skies this morning. Looks like the latest hurricane has passed, or as Ethel Waters once sang in the 1930s (with accompaniment by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, lyrics by Ted Koehler / Harold Arlen)…
I like this rhyme:
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin chair will get me.
There must be a dozen or more versions of this song by famous singers, but I have not seen or heard one better than the original. Wonder if anyone in pop has attempted an alternative version?
Idle as a painted ship
A little bit of insight from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.