Platform

Photo: David Sweet

Chris

Photo: David Sweet

cock

cock / noun The penis. coarse slang.

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Photo: firebush1

Mr. Strong

“Mr. Strong may be a bit too strong for his own good. But if you need a helping hand–he’s your man!”

Looks a bit more like “Little Miss Trouble” to me.
Photos: Model, Scott Stone at www.englishlads.com

Lustre

“Beauty is difficult.”*

*Ezra Pound

Here

Here in the self is all that man can know
Of Beauty, all the wonder, all the power
All the unearthly colour, all the glow,
Here in the self which withers like a flower;
Here in the self which fades as hours pass,
And droops and dies and rots and is forgotten
Sooner, by ages, than the mirroring glass
In which it sees its glory still unrotten.
Here in the flesh, within the flesh, behind,
Swift in the blood and throbbing on the bone,
Beauty herself, the universal mind,
Eternal April wandering alone;
The God, the holy Ghost, the atoning Lord
Here in the flesh, the never yet explored.

JOHN MASEFIELD, Terra Incognita, from Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems, 1917

Photo: Czech28

Year 3

First post—first love.

Fresh gaze

The world contains so many beautiful things to gaze at
That gazing is an occupation you could spend days at . . .

OGDEN NASH, from Good Intentions, 1942

Photo: lukeo 102 2 originally uploaded by bladernnr1 on flickr

Agaze

Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star now playing at the Varsity

Ode to a Nightingale