Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant mouth is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
"Pleasant mouth"?
A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?
On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
"Pleasant mouth"?
A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?
Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when
combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog,
and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web.
Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've
seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as
they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them have "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem 6
times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone else
who put it on their site did the same.
The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the text online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each other. I
suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's son says
he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find either. If it
was typed in from a print book, that could explain the appearance of the "mouth."
Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver lining,
when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run of the
mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally, that
unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct version of
the poem.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
"Pleasant mouth"?
A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?
Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when
combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog,
and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web.
Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've
seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as
they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them
have "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem
6 times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone
else who put it on their site did the same.
The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the
text online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each
other. I suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's
son says he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find
either. If it was typed in from a print book, that could explain the
appearance of the "mouth."
Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver
lining, when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run
of the mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally,
that unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct
version of the poem.
Again, it does seem to be a typo, and should be corrected, until further information surfaces.
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant month is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem." -Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem." -Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet
named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem." -Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet
named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem."
-Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet
named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
Same one..?
Sean Dunne at The Brogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hCOl3ycgc
On 2022-08-03 6:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem."
-Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet
named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
Same one..?
Sean Dunne at The Brogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hCOl3ycgc
No. Sean Dunne the poet died in 1995.
Thanks for posting that, though. I thought the "thesaurus" joke was hilarious, though I could see a lot of people not getting it. Maybe he
should have closed it with a more obvious line, like "I'm at a loss for words."
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-03 6:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem."
-Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet
named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
Same one..?
Sean Dunne at The Brogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hCOl3ycgc
No. Sean Dunne the poet died in 1995.
Thanks for posting that, though. I thought the "thesaurus" joke was
hilarious, though I could see a lot of people not getting it. Maybe he
should have closed it with a more obvious line, like "I'm at a loss for
words."
Indeed I found him quite amusing...
Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-03 6:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-08-01 5:42 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
"Re: We found the origin of the Robert F. Stillings "July" poem."
-Nancy Gene
Okay, so, was Robert F. Stillings a friend of John Dunne?
By coincidence, yesterday I was working on a wiki article for a poet >>>>> named Seán Dunne.
I wonder if he was related to John.
Same one..?
Sean Dunne at The Brogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hCOl3ycgc
No. Sean Dunne the poet died in 1995.
I'm not familiar with him, but will check him out.
Thanks for posting that, though. I thought the "thesaurus" joke was
hilarious, though I could see a lot of people not getting it. Maybe he
should have closed it with a more obvious line, like "I'm at a loss for
words."
Indeed I found him quite amusing...
On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
"Pleasant mouth"?
A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?
Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when
combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog,
and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web.
Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've
seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as
they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them have "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem 6
times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone else
who put it on their site did the same.
The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the text online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each other. I
suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's son says
he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find either. If it
was typed in from a print book, that could explain the appearance of the "mouth."
Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver lining,
when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run of the
mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally, that
unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct version of
the poem.
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant month is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant month is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
July, by Robert F. Skillings
A very pleasant month is this
To be in a country town.
The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
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