A Maiden s Dream on the Eve of St Agnes Day
Author’s note: Tradition would have us believe the night before St. Agnes’ Day, January 21, is always bitterly cold. A virgin who says her prayers and goes to bed without supper this night will surely see her future husband in her dreams. With a ‘tip o’ m’ hat’ to John Keats for inspiring me with THE EVE OF ST. AGNES and Sister R________ for assigning Keats’ poem to sophomores in her English literature class for January 20, 1977, thank you. * There were worse things that could happen to a...