Browse Items (19 total)

  • Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 2

Amel and Penhor, decorated page
Recounts a story of Saint Malo, in northern Brittany, and its legend of a Great Flood. Penhor, daughter of Bud, was wife of Amel, who tended the flocks of Annan, the great seigneur; Childless Penhor weaves a veil for Holy Mary; gets the baby she…

Cobweb Hall, decorated page
A Berwickshire Folk-tale about a house that is shunned rather than haunted. Lived in by an eccentric single woman, Miss Clinscales, with an obsequious man servant. She is found dead one morning by maid, with her throat cut; a large amount of money is…

Faith’s Avatar, decorated page
single 9-line stanza

In Shadowland, decorated page
sonnet: abbaabba cddc ee

La Cité Du Bon Accord, decorated page
"This article is placed in the section 'Autumn in the North' since it has been suggested by a recent visit from its writer. The foremost geographer in Europe, M. Rectus, is also the joint-apostle with Tolstoi of the higher Anarchism. Both…

Le Dilettantisme, decorated page
Like a star-gazer who would tell us that astronomy is vanity, yet offers in exchange his own descriptions and fancies of the hour, so this contemporary literature of dilettantism thinks of life as a mere phantasmagoria, pleasant to observe but vain…

Love Shall Stay, decorated page
4 lyric quatrains: ababdeath and loss and departure, “But I’ll make a summer within my heart, /And Love, sweet Love, shall stay!”

Mary of the Gael, decorated page
Note: This 'legendary romance' is based upon the ancient and still current (though often hopelessly contradictory) legends concerning Brighid, or Bride, commonly known as ‘Muime Chriosd,' i.e. the Foster-Mother of Christ. From the universal honour…

Maya, decorated page
2 quatrains, rhyming abab

November Sunshine, decorated page
3, 5-line stanzas, abcab
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