Personified - Volume 1

A collection of classic rhyming verse built around the concept of Personification - giving life & form & voice & breath to philosophical concepts & virtues. Individual pieces include: Outlaw Time & his love of beautiful Nature . flourishing, lavish Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy . the fierce collision of Time & Truth .  Justice's blind eyes, eager ears & tepid aid . tobogganing down treacherous Ignorance .
collecting & gathering Strength in odd places . lifting & carrying backbreaking Dreams . How Alcohol is no lady - & certainly not your friend . the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom . the timeless relationship between Death & Beauty (& more). Includes 22 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Titian, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser, Eglon van Der Neer, Jacob & Joris Hoefnagel, Jules de Bruycker, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Venanci Vallmitjana & the Supreme Court of Canada. Also includes wisdom & insight from:Martin LutherHenry Wadsworth LongfellowJohn UpdikeMos DefNathaniel HawthorneTennessee WilliamsWilliam Carlos WilliamsD.
H. LawrenceLee Xiaolongthe Book of IsaiahJim Standsthe Book of IsaiahEleanor RooseveltAbraham LincolnAlbert EinsteinAlexander PopeMother Teresathe Dalai LamaMeryl StreepJ. R. R. TolkienMaya Angeloue.e. cummingsMark TwainMichel de MontaigneJimi HendricksHans-Ulrich ObristThucydidesHenry FordKurt VonnegutLouis PasteurDeWitt ClintonCalvin CoolidgeAugustus HareDerek BokMargaret FullerJay-ZFriedrich NietzscheLeonardo da VinciMarcus GarveyPlatoRalph W.
SockmanStephen HawkingKofi AnnanAvery BrooksJames MadisonJohn MiltonJim MorrisonLucius Annaeus SenecaHoraceHomerWallace StevensWalt WhitmanJ. R. R. TolkienEdgar Allen PoeHenry David ThoreauVirginia Woolf