Half-Past February Sharp

February 14, 2019

Lifetime Learning shares more Valentine’s poetry with “Half-Past February Sharp” by Stephen Cushman, Robert C. Taylor Professor of English in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Mr. Cushman was a Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2014-2016 and a recipient of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 2015.

Please share your reflections on Valentine’s Day below. More poetry coming!

HALF-PAST FEBRUARY SHARP

Eros to the Greeks,
The Romans called him Cupid,
Whose bull’s-eye brings spring.

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