Able Muse - riddle 24 https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/842/842? en Riddle 24 https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-24? <p>I am wonderful and rare&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I can lay aside&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> my own speech&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for another&rsquo;s! <br /> At times, I hound-bark,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; goat-bleat,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> goose-honk,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; or sharply shrill like a hawk.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Sometimes,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I mime the eagle&rsquo;s long scree,<br /> the gray soldier&rsquo;s&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; keening cry; sometimes, <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-24?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-24?#comments Poetry Translation anglo saxon riddles anglo-saxon bertha rogers exeter book old english poems riddle 24 translation v9 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:54 +0000 Administrator 616 at https://www.ablemuse.com Bertha Rogers https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers? <p>More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, including <em>Barrow Street, The MacGuffin, Nimrod International Journal, The Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, ONTHEBUS, The Same, Rattapallax, Pivot</em>, <em>BigCityLit</em>, and others. Her collections include <em>Even the Hemlock: Poe</em>(chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); <em>A House of Corners</em> (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); and <em>&nbsp;Sleeper, You Wake</em> (Mellen, NY 1991).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?#comments Bios anglo-saxon bertha rogers bio poems poetry translation riddle 29 riddle 15 riddle 24 riddle 27 riddle 37 riddle-poems riddles v8 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:42:10 +0000 Administrator 614 at https://www.ablemuse.com