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One single line of poetry....

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Clawdy · 26/06/2015 15:26

that stays with you? Not necessarily your favourite poem but sometimes just one line....for me it's " What will survive of us is love " from the Philip Larkin poem.

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florentina1 · 26/06/2015 18:15

Brilliant post

albertcampionscat · 26/06/2015 18:10

As I consider how my life is spent/ Ere half my days in this dark world and wide.

From 'on his blindness' Milton.

AccordingToOurRecords · 26/06/2015 18:00

And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea

Loves Philosophy.....Shelley.

jeee · 26/06/2015 17:53

Every Christmas I read John Betjeman

And is it true? And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me?

Makes me cry, every year.

Trumpton · 26/06/2015 17:52

I have been here before, but when or how I cannot tell.

Sudden Light , Christina Rossetti

Hassled · 26/06/2015 17:51

"Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle." WH Auden. A Level English Lit. I understood very little Auden but that line hasn't left my head after 30 years.

MuttonCadet · 26/06/2015 17:49

When my love swears she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

BitOutOfPractice · 26/06/2015 17:49

esitrot I cam here to post that exact same sentence (The Thomas one)

It's a maxim I live my life by - and an excuse to behave inappropriately for my age!

Ormally · 26/06/2015 17:49

Guybrush - I nearly chose that very one (Mametz Wood).

Kbear · 26/06/2015 17:48

I am a bunny rabbit, sitting in me hutch
I always sit up this end, don't care for that end much

Pam Ayres

GuybrushThreepwoodMightyPirate · 26/06/2015 17:48

In boots that outlasted them.
About WW1

My Dad did.
In the poem a child has missed out an 'e' (blubs)

esiotrot2015 · 26/06/2015 17:47

And Pam Ayres : sorry a whole poem Grin
Yes, I’ll marry you, my dear.
And here’s the reason why.
So I can push you out of bed
When the baby starts to cry.
And if we hear a knocking
And it’s creepy and it’s late,
I hand you the torch you see,
And you investigate.

Yes I’ll marry you, my dear,
You may not apprehend it,
But when the tumble-drier goes
It’s you that has to mend it.
You have to face the neighbour
Should our labrador attack him,
And if a drunkard fondles me
It’s you that has to whack him.

Yes, I’ll marry you,
You’re virile and you’re lean,
My house is like a pigsty
You can help to keep it clean.
That sexy little dinner
Which you served by candlelight,
As I do chipolatas,
You can cook it every night!!!

It’s you who has to work the drill
And put up curtain track,
And when I’ve got PMT it’s you who gets the flak,
I do see great advantages,
But none of them for you,
And so before you see the light,
I DO, I DO, I DO!!

eatyourveg · 26/06/2015 17:47

God is in his heaven and all is right with the world

Hestheone · 26/06/2015 17:45

Ledare picked my choice,this is my second favorite by an inch

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

esiotrot2015 · 26/06/2015 17:43

'Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'

& Wendy cope :
Bloody Christmas here again
Let's us raise a loving cup,
Peace on earth, goodwill to men
And make them do the washing up .

Jenoftheweek · 26/06/2015 17:42

ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washèd it away:
Edmund Spenser

AlpacaPicnic · 26/06/2015 17:31

Weep if you must,
parting is hell,
but life goes on,
so sing as well.

If I should go - by Joyce Grenfell.
This is the poem that I want read at my funeral...

winterinmadeira · 26/06/2015 17:31

I often have a strange and penetrating dream; of a woman, whom I do not know

Mon reve familiar by Paul Verlaine. I've always loved it and remembered it since I did my A levels

Earthbound · 26/06/2015 17:29

Like *Penguins it's the line from Invictus by W E Henly for me:

'I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.'

The last line of Plath's 'Daddy' has also stayed with me:
'Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.' Such rage.

NetballHoop · 26/06/2015 17:29

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Death be not proud by John Donne.

ProbablyMe · 26/06/2015 17:28

I wonder by troth what you and I did til we loved? - The Good- Morrow by John Donne. Did his poems for A'Level 20 odd years ago and this one stuck. Just an old romantic!!

Wobblystraddle · 26/06/2015 17:27

Felt in the blood and felt along the heart - Tintern Abbey.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams - Yeats
Anchor. Kite. - Simon Armitage

HippyChickMama · 26/06/2015 17:26

I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

hattymattie · 26/06/2015 17:24

Heard a carol mournful holy, chanted loudly chanted lowly ...

I know it's not fashionable any more but I love Tennyson and I love narrative verse - beautiful long poems with a tale to tell.

SanityClause · 26/06/2015 17:23

Those cruel girls we loved are over forty,
Their subtle daughters have stolen their beauty,
And with a blue stare of cool surprise,
They mock their anxious mothers, with their mothers' eyes.