The Ms Dopping-Hepenstal stood up by her groom who had eloped to India with another woman without her knowing is still spoken of today. Her sister was involved with one of the Edgeworths, but in the end neither girl married. Some versions of the story have Edgeworth as the cad, but most do not.
Dermots passion, in stealing Teirnans wife, would have an effect on #Ireland that would last longer than the better known wars of Troy …
They walked serene without any clothes Free and easy, them both She bid, he bit, and it got stuck A bit of …
I have a friend who is big into all Vampire stories, and we were discussing the saying about who loves the flower …
She was a landlords daughter Her lover not so grand It was illegal to be a Catholic You could not own your …
The bitter bickering old couple often seen as much as the loving couples… yet they too were lovers once… an old verse …
(Song – Music: Guillherme Schroeter – Lyrics: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh) I held her hand Just for one dance It was our very …
To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …
A Pashtun (Afghan) love story, of a couple who fell for each other at first sight, but were destined not to be …
Castiglione’s advise on this, well known to Yeats, was literally taken to heart. The courtier must create an image of the beloved …
A poem I wrote some years back, on love, a disapproving family, and a tragedy of murder and suicide! which I now …
“How can you suffer because of something that doesn’t exist?” ~ Buddhist Monk Elyane S. Youssef met in Nepal Read her article …
There is a lot of “we must look after our own first” going around now that the refuggees from Syria are on …
He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all …
Two swans swimming in the river cold Meet beak to beak together In love for life it is said These birds are …
Before we forgot Thanks to dogma preached We worried not If sacrament we had reached Before sharing each other Neath the skies …
She flies higher, the queen bee, on the dance of death, of lust and love Till she burns out the drones who …
I grew up in an English garden Everything planted by plan, in rows For effect, pleasing to the eye To an order …
There were no thorns upon the stems That she held in her hand there Being as false as the love that did …
Three roses she held in her hand For all the world to see One each from two Pretenders A single rose from …