Some Poetry by E. L. Core

I have received an e-mail that delights me:

I have just come from your poetry page, where I've read three of your poems, "Autumn Sunset", "Winter Afternoon" and "September Evening." You have a wonderfully individual voice, an alert eye and a very good ear, and are conscious of your poetic forebears -- while keeping a style that is very much your own. I shall return to read more -- perhaps two or three a day, only a few at a time to give them the attention & absorption that they warrant.

I could hardly ask for a more gratifying message. The first poem was inspired by a walk around town that day; the second, by a walk on the hills above town; the third, by sitting a short spell on the front porch at my parents' house, where I was still living at the time.

Here's a poetry quiz: "Autumn Sunset" contains a brief phrase (three words) snatched from Shakespeare; "September Evening", a brief phrase (also three words) snatched from Gerard Manley Hopkins. Can you identify them?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 09/02/02 07:59:43 PM
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