Some knotted riddles tell

 

Artist:  Aron Wiesenfeld

Some accomplishments today;  posted the grades.  Many A's; 2 F's.       Assembled the plates of my homemade Christmas cookies to distribute to our employees tomorrow.

Meanwhile, here's a poem from Thomas Campion:

Now Winter Nights Enlarge

by Thomas Campion

Now winter nights enlarge

The number of their hours;

And clouds their storms discharge

Upon the airy towers.

Let now the chimneys blaze

And cups o’erflow with wine,

Let well-turned words amaze

With harmony divine.

Now yellow waxen lights

Shall wait on honey love

While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights

Sleep’s leaden spells remove.

 

This time doth well dispense

With lovers’ long discourse;

Much speech hath some defense,

Though beauty no remorse.

All do not all things well;

Some measures comely tread,

Some knotted riddles tell,

Some poems smoothly read.

The summer hath his joys,

And winter his delights;

Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,

They shorten tedious nights.

 

 

John Forti - Wreath from winter garden