Today I joined the Confraternity of the Rosary, which entails the obligation of reciting fifteen decades of the rosary every week, but this does not bind under pain of sin. The benefits of joining the Confraternity are "the special protection of the Mother of God; a share in the prayer of countless members the world over, and this even after death; a share in the prayers, Masses, and apostolical works of the entire Dominican Order; the intercession of the entire heavenly court; various plenary and partial indulgences; and the publication "Light and Life". I have altered the punctuation and shortened the last benefit, but the text is taken from their website.
The thirteenth promise of the Rosary is "I have obtained from my Son that ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ROSARY CONFRATERNITY shall have as their intercessors, in life and in death, the entire celestial court."

I made a vow to God today to pray five decades of the rosary every day for as long as I live, unless prevented by moral or physical impossibility. I ask your prayers that I shall keep my vow.

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I have thought it a good idea to compile a list of my poems on DeviantArt, so that they can be reached more easily than if you had to plough through my gallery.

Poems

No. 1. Time: [link]
No. 2. Sun and Moon: [link]
No. 3. Snow: [link]
No. 4. I Hate this Weather: [link]
No. 5. Stars: [link]
No. 6. The Seasons of the Year: [link]
No. 7. A Dark Poem: [link]
No. 8. The Forgotten Dream: [link]
No. 9. De Rerum Natura: [link]
No. 10. And we beheld his glory: [link]
No. 11. Recurrent Seasons: [link]
No. 12. On the Inception of the CRGS Philosophy Society: [link]
No. 13. Computers: [link]
No. 14. Death and Life: [link]
No. 15. Procrastination: [link]
No. 16. To the Muse of Poetry: [link]
No. 17. Nothing: [link]
No. 18. The Injured Writer: [link]
No. 19. Vicious Circle: [link]
No. 20. Loquitur anima: [link]
No. 21. Life: Sonnet: [link]
No. 22. Early Morning Stillness; or, On looking out of his window early in the morning, entranced by birdsong: [link]
No. 23. The Swan: [link]
No. 24. Fleeting Time: [link]
No. 25. My tale provokes that question: [link]
No. 26. Meteorology: [link]
No. 27. The Room: [link]
No. 28. Poetical Prose: [link]
No. 29. The Spark of Life: [link]
No. 30. Illness: [link]
No. 31. Inspiration: [link]
No. 32. To the Reader: [link]
No. 33. Sleep: [link]
No. 34. April: [link]
No. 35. On this green hillside: [link]
No. 36. What is a poet?: [link]
No. 37. Intended to be Today's Last: [link]
No. 38. Sheep: [link]
No. 39. Perspective: [link]
No. 40. It is the poet's duty: [link]
No. 41. The Red Squirrel: [link]
No. 42. The Deserted Village: [link]
No. 43. The poet, walking over hill: [link]
No. 44. EASTER TRILOGY: (1) Good Friday: [link]
(2) Easter Even: [link]
(3) Easter Day: [link]
No. 45. May: [link]
No. 46. In Imitation of Free Verse: [link]
No. 47. The Lusty Month of May: [link]
No. 48. Written during a Downpour: [link]
No. 49. Early in the Morning: [link]
No. 50. Note to BrerAnansi: [link]
No. 51. The Summer Sun: [link]
No. 52. Music, a roundelay: [link]
No. 53. Time rolls by: [link]
No. 54. Melancholia: [link]
No. 55. The Insomniac: [link]
No. 56. Hell and Heaven: [link]
No. 57. Evening: [link]
No. 58. London: a Sonnet: [link]
No. 59. Music: [link]
No. 60. English Assignment: [link]
No. 61. The End: [link]
No. 62. Homesickness?: [link]
No. 63. A Confession: [link]
No. 64. 666 Pageviews: [link]
No. 65. God moves in a mysterious way: [link]
No. 66. The Lord of the Terrible Land: [link]
No. 67. Luna: [link]
No. 68. To Ludwig van Beethoven: [link]
No. 69. 'I write these lines upon a sheet of paper': [link]
No. 70. On reading from a book: [link]
No. 71. Who would be a newsreader?: [link]
No. 72. Andantino: [link]
No. 73. Introspection: [link]
No. 74. A Colchester Nocturne: [link]
No. 75. De Morte Magni Instituti: [link]
No. 76. This Too Shall Pass: [link]
No. 77. "Real Men Don't Cry": [link]
No. 78. Proficiscere de hoc mundo: [link]
No. 79. Conscience: [link]
No. 80. A Late Evening Poem: [link]
No. 81. Sic fatus: [link]
No. 82. The Journey Home: [link]
No. 83. A Parody of Keats: [link]
No. 84. After Aquinas: [link]
No. 85. To a Book by C.S. Lewis: [link]
No. 86. Et homo factus est: [link]
No. 87. "Lies and False": [link]
No. 88. Ce qu'on entend: [link]
No. 89. The Battle of Flodden Field: [link]
No. 90. To Saint Augustine of Hippo: [link]
No. 91. The Legend of St Dorothea: [link]
No. 92. To a Seagull: [link]
No. 93. A Consolation: [link]
No. 94. A Sonnet: [link]
No. 95. Twilight: [link]
No. 96. The Killing of the King: [link]
No. 97. Sehnsucht: [link]
No. 98. Hypergraphia: [link]
No. 99. Righteous Indignation: [link]
No. 100. To Jesus Christ: [link]
No. 101. To the Mother of God: [link]
No. 102. To Our Lord at Dawn: [link]
No. 103. Some Heretics: [link]
No. 104. Answer to Prayer: [link]
No. 105. To a Day: [link]
No. 106. The Transience of Life: [link]
No. 107. Into Thy Hands: [link]
No. 108. Over the Sea: [link]
No. 109. Some More Heretics: [link]
No. 110. The Convert: [link]
No. 111. Kyrie eleison: [link]
No. 112. Ad Mariam Semper Virginem: [link]
No. 113. Oh, I do like to be a Roman Catholic: [link]
No. 114. A Prayer: [link]
No. 115. On Rabelais: [link]
No. 116. A Silly Song: [link]
No. 117. The Quest for the Keys: [link]
No. 118. Extraordinary Ordnance: [link]
No. 119. The Second Commandment: [link]
No. 120. Maundy Thursday: [link]
No. 121. The Tower of Babel: a Song: [link]
No. 122. A Question: [link]
No. 123. On a magpie: [link]
No. 124. The Solution: [link]
No. 125. Reminiscence: [link]
No. 126. Waiting for the Dentist: [link]
No. 127. On Toothpaste: [link]
No. 128. Mead is Better than Medicine: [link]


THE GHOST OF RUSSELL SQUARE
(an unfinished ballad in seven parts)
Part the First: [link]
Part the Second: [link]
Part the Third: [link]
Part the Fourth: [link]
Please be patient, the rest will come (eventually).
Note: I do not know whether the Ghost of Russell Square is worth continuing. It is such execrable rubbish that it is probably better off transferred to scraps.

Translations
Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles: [link]
Horace Odes I.xx: [link]
From Catullus: [link]


Essays

The Thinker (complete)
Dedication: [link]
#1 (Tuesday, 2nd May, 2006): [link]
#2 (Saturday, 6th May, 2006): [link]
#3 (Tuesday, 9th May, 2006): [link]
#4 (Saturday, 13th May, 2006): [link]
#5 (Tuesday, 16th May, 2006): [link]
#6 (Saturday, 20th May, 2006): [link]
#7 (Tuesday, 23rd May, 2006): [link]
#8 (Saturday, 27th May, 2006): [link]
#9 (Tuesday, 30th May, 2006): [link]
#10 (Saturday, 3rd June, 2006): [link]
#11 (Tuesday, 6th June, 2006): [link]
#12 (Saturday, 10th June, 2006): [link]
#13 (Tuesday, 13th June, 2006): [link]
#14 (Saturday, 17th June, 2006): [link]
#15 (Tuesday, 20th June, 2006): [link]
#16 (Saturday, 24th June, 2006): [link]
#17 (Tuesday, 27th June, 2006): [link]
#18 (Saturday, 1st July, 2006): [link]
#19 (Tuesday, 4th July, 2006): [link]
#20 (Saturday, 8th July, 2006): [link]

The Catholic
(First 4 issues)
#1 (Saturday, 8th March, 2008): [link]
#2 (Tuesday, 11th March, 2008): [link]
#3 (Saturday, 15th March, 2008): [link]
#4 (Tuesday, 18th March, 2008): [link]
---The series was ended on account of sickness. There may be a new series at some point in the future or I may write under a different title.---

Literary Criticism
Analysis of a Sonnet by Sidney: [link]

Miscellaneous Essays
2 + 2: [link]
Theological Thoughts: [link]
Against the Humanist: [link]
On Traffic Jams: [link]
On Appreciation: [link]
On Paganism: [link]
On Reading: [link]
The Index of Forbidden Books: [link]

Meditations:
The Sign of the Cross: [link]

Reviews
Books
The Stripping of the Altars: [link]
Films
The Da Vinci Code: [link] (negative)
Plays
Michael Frayn: Donkeys' Years: [link]
Musicals
Princess Ida: [link]
Television
Eurovision: [link] (negative)

Prose Fiction
Arabian Nights Imitation: [link]
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