David Given Schwarm

Currently, reading the new R.A. Salvatore book with the D&D Novel Club on GoodReads!

       Our Adonais has drunk poison—oh!       What deaf and viperous murderer could crown       Life’s early cup with such a draught of woe?       The nameless worm would now itself disown:       It felt, yet could escape, the magic tone       Whose prelude held all envy, hate and wrong,       But what was howling in one breast alone,       Silent with…

There were some things that music was no match for, and a horrible abandoned prison was one of them.

A Sand Book by Ariana Reines My rating: 5 of 5 stars Seriously this may be the best book of American poetry published during my life time. Absolutely unbelievable in terms of scope, content, language, focus, fun, and everything else that makes a book of poems memorable and worth reading–the heft of this book should…

       What softer voice is hush’d over the dead?       Athwart what brow is that dark mantle thrown?       What form leans sadly o’er the white death-bed,       In mockery of monumental stone,       The heavy heart heaving without a moan?       If it be He, who, gentlest of the wise,       Taught, sooth’d, lov’d, honour’d the departed one,       Let me…