Original Witch

Jeg er stadig ikke enig med Søren Ulrik Thomsen i, at Hanne Boel synger bedre end Marianne Faithfull, og ikke på trods men op grund af hendes fint tornede stemme - på hendes ny plade med Keats-titlen Negative Capeability gensynger hun apropos al nylig heksevirksomhed "Witches Song" fra den hovedværket Broken English, det er en bedre tekst end noget samtidigt (ellers senere) 80'er-digt:

[Verse 1]
Shall I see tonight sister
Bathed in magic greet
Shall we meet on the hilltop
Where the two roads meet?
We will form the circle
Hold our hands and chant
Let the great one know
What it is we want

[Chorus]
Danger is great joy
Dark is bright as fire
Happy is our family
Lonely is the ward

[Verse 2]
Sister we are waiting
On the rock and chain
Fly fast through the airwaves
Meet with pride and truth

[Chorus]
Danger is great joy
Dark is bright as fire
Happy is our family
Lonely is the ward

[Verse 3]
Father we are waiting
For you to appear
Do you feel the panic
Can you see the fear ?
Mother we are waiting
For you to give consent
If there's to be a marriage
In the eve's contempt

[Chorus]
Danger is great joy
Dark is bright as fire
Happy is our family
Lonely is the ward
- og her singlen fra den nye plade, duet med Nick Cave, og sigøjner-elverdronningen er selvfølgelig også en heks (men hvorfor er pladen Kissin Time ikke på Spotify?)

Livsmaskeret, lokforlokket

Haydon's life mask of Keats was made in 1816 and according to Fanny Keats was 'perfect copy of the features of my dear brother ... It is perfect, except for the mouth, the lips being rather thicker and somewhat compressed which renders the expression more severe than the sweet and mild original.'

RELICS. These include: a piece of red damask from the bed curtains at Halnaby Hall, the setting for Lord and Lady Byron's honeymoon, or, as he would later call it, their 'treaclemoon'; a dagger, given to Edward Trelawny by a blind beggar during a scuffle in Pisa, in which ByroGå tilbage til liste over indlægn and Shelley were also involved; an alabaster urn with a fragment of Shelley's jaw bone given by Trelawny to Hunt and subsequently kept in the family as a sacred relic and a tin box containing essences used in Shelley's cremation.
  In the nineteenth century it was common for friends to exchange locks of hair as a sign of affection and the Museum collection includes locks from many famous heads including those of Keats, Shelley and Leigh Hunt. In 1833 Hunt described Keat's hair as follows: 'Mr. Keats' hair was remarkable for its beauty, its flowing grace and fineness ... It was a kind of ideal, poetical hair ...'. A scallop shell reliquary, once the property of Pope Pius V, contains the hair of John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

(fra The Keats-Shelley House. A Guide (det fineste lille museum, ved siden af den spanske trappe, i huset, hvor Keats døde af tuberkulose som 25-årig i 1821)