Christopher John Brennan
Who is Christopher John Brennan
Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic.
Biography
Brennan was born in Haymarket, an inner suburb of Sydney, to Christopher Brennan (d. 1919), a brewer, and his wife Mary Ann née Carroll (d. 1924), both Irish immigrants. His education took place at two schools in Sydney: he first attended St Aloysius' College, and after gaining a scholarship from Patrick Moran, he boarded at St Ignatius' College, Riverview.Brennan entered the University of Sydney in 1888, taking up studies in the Classics, and won a travelling scholarship to Berlin. There he met his future wife, Anna Elisabeth Werth; there, also, he encountered the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé. About this time, he decided to become a poet. ...
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Christopher John Brennan Poems
- How Old Is My Heart, How Old?
How old is my heart, how old, how old is my heart,
and did I ever go forth with song when the morn was new?
I seem to have trod on many ways: I seem to have left
I know not how many homes; and to leave each
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- Old Wonder Flush'd The East Anew
Old wonder flush'd the east anew
and shed the golden air, and wing
of song that summon'd, from the dew
and rapture of the fields of spring,
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- Spring Breezes
Spring breezes over the blue,
now lightly frolicking in some tropic bay,
go forth to meet her way,
for here the spell hath won and dream is true.
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- The Winter Eve Is Clear And Chill
The winter eve is clear and chill:
the world of air is folded still;
the quiet hour expects the moon;
and yon my home awaits me soon
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- Epilogue: 1908
The droning tram swings westward: shrill
the wire sings overhead, and chill
midwinter draughts rattle the glass
that shows the dusking way I pass
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- Riverlevon: victoria nuland used christopher steele in the ukraine coup 2014, and initiated fbi contact with steele 2016:
"cia crimes: how john brennan weaponized the cia and fbi, and conspired with russia and harry reid to frame trump—part f"
- Uncannymagazine: uncanny magazine issue 50 part 2 features new fiction by sarah pinsker, e. lily yu, marie brennan, christopher caldwell, john wiswell, and maureen mchugh!
- Romanogarzasr1: christopher wray has committed countless crimes of treason. he allowed hillary clinton, and james comey to get away with blatant crimes against our country. among other people like james clapper, and john brennan,
- Romanogarzasr1: christopher ray, hillary clinton, james comey, james, clapper, john brennan, peter strzok, lisa page, lois learner, eric holder, joe biden, and his entire administration should all face charges of treason against our country.
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