Summary: Sometimes it's nice to just sit in your room.
Commentary:
1. This is a sonnet.
2. It has the word "sonnet" in it!
"Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground;"
3. I agree that it's nice to have a small room to sit in. I've told my wife I would live in our shed if I could. I remember my dorm/first apartments, and it was kind of nice that all of "your" space was one room. Made it easier to keep things organized.
M: “My peace is gone/ My heart is heavy” from Goethe’s Faust, translated by Richard Stokes (2005)
Got hacked today. Will finish later.
L: “Let us begin and carry up this corpse,” (A Grammarian’s Funeral) by Robert Browning (1855)
A to Z 2026: "Katherina say..." from Goethe's Faust (1790)
Bonus:
Summary: The devil to sing a sexy song to help the guy whose soul he bought get laid.
Commentary: Another short one, let's just have the whole thing:
Kathrina say,
Why lingering stay
At dawn of day
Before your lover's door?
Maiden, beware,
Nor enter there,
Lest forth you fare,
A maiden never more.
Maiden take heed!
Reck well my rede!
Is't done, the deed?
Good night, you poor, poor thing!
The spoiler's lies, His arts despise,
Nor yield your prize,
Without the marriage ring!
(The previous line indicates that this is Mephistopheles singing while he plays guitar. I fucking love Faust.)
Bonus:
Summary: Hey, remember these?
Commentary:
118-120: Just be chill with people you meet.
119: Apologize, don't make excuses. (Someday, people will learn all the stuff in these 400+year old books. Until then, we'll recycle the same 12 things for self help books.)
128: Don't waste your time talking to people if you don't have a reason.
131: "If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it." We got a regular Ben Franklin over here.
142: Even if you're right, you just make your cause look bad if you're a hot head.
145: Don't believe, or spread, rumors.
“Jamie, come try me” by Robert Burns (1791?)
Bonus:
Summary: COME AT ME, BRO! (But with kisses.)
Commentary: Uhoh, drunkish blogging. This is a fun one. And very readable for Burns.
6/5 feet per line. Most of them rhyme we "E" except the loves.
So much BURNS! The other options were mostly Jehova...
3/5
“I put my hat…” by Samuel Johnson
Bonus:
Summary: He puts on a hat.
Commentary: It's so short, I'll just paste the whole thing in:
I put my hat upon my head
And walked into the Strand,
And there I met another man
Whose hat was in his hand.
A to Z 2026: N: “Nuns Fret Not…” by William Wordsworth Bonus: Studio C is my guilty pleasure Summary: Sometimes it's nice to just sit...
