Saturday, August 1, 2009

Dreaming Spires?

Matthew Arnold's poem Thrysis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough (1866)
includes these lines describing the view of Oxford from Boars Hill: "And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,/ She needs not June for beauty's heightening".

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  1. CarolineAugust 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    Glad you got on the bus - you must be amongst the spires now, right? Hope all is going well - keep us posted!

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