My love is like a steady climbing rose, Because with all the years that pass, It builds upon the past and grows Like further lush and verdan...

This poem was written by Air Commodore Alastair Panton, CB, OBE, DFC (1916-2002). Originally published in "Wings  - and other things...

Introduction.   For details about the life of Sallust, his political affiliations, his qualities as a historian and as a writer, readers are...

Introduction.  The first six books of the "Aeneid" reflect, in their content, Homer's "Odyssey", and indeed Virgil b...