Jeff Guess

The Funeral of Shelley - Louis Edouard Fournier 1889 Fournier's painting shows the funeral pyre surrounded by three of the dead poet's...

Musée des Beaux Arts   By W. H. Auden December 1938   About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood...

Envoy Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam   They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,      Love and desire and hate;...

for Helen Mango Mousse Mary Oliver   The latest Eating and Drinking Poems post is a nostalgic, mouth-watering homage to the warm, sweet...

One of the very best love poems in English. Strawberries   There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon...

Fig frangipane tart - my take on a Lorenza De Medici recipe - love at first bite! Succulent figs seduce our senses from late Summer...

Pablo Neruda  wrote glorious odes to many foods, including lemons, tomatoes, artichokes, salt, and an onion. He had a lot of food love to...

Sappho , (Fragments) 104–117 (Wedding Songs) 104.                                                               Hesperus, star most...

Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell.   I love to go out in late September among...

‘Shake oh shake the ketchup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.’   Ogden Nash   Ogden Nash  (1902 - 1971) was an American poet well...