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One single line of poetry....

459 replies

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.

OP posts:
pinkhousesarebest · 26/06/2015 16:25

Let the mind's eye take its picture,
something to hold against the heart in the long cold.

Describing the last days of Autumn. I think of this so often now as my dcs grow up and I stack away lovely memories.

ShelaghTurner · 26/06/2015 16:24

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring make’ it more.

John Donne, Love's Growth.

insanityscatching · 26/06/2015 16:20

Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow's dawn,
And calmly, as if indifferent quite, as if you didn’t care
You would close your term here, up and be gone

Bit more than a line but my breath catches every time I read it. Thomas Hardy's poems about the death of his wife are simply beautiful.

maras2 · 26/06/2015 16:18

Bugger my text dropped off.It was Death shall have no dominion by Dylan Thomas.

maras2 · 26/06/2015 16:16

Dead men naked,they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon.

Sorelip · 26/06/2015 16:14

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The Second Coming, Yeates

QuestioningStuff · 26/06/2015 16:12

"On and on you will hike and I know you'll hike far, and face up to your problems whatever they are"

Dr Seuss - oh the places you'll go.

I SOBBED when I read it to DS.

marshmallowpies · 26/06/2015 16:10

And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

Little Gidding, TS Eliot

Also, from the Waste Land:
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many/I had not thought death had undone so many.

Nowfeeltheneedtopost · 26/06/2015 16:09

I was much too far out all of my life
And not waving but drowning.

Stevie Smith

Canyouforgiveher · 26/06/2015 16:09

To call myself beloved
To feel myself beloved on the earth

Raymond Carver's Last Fragment.

SandStorm · 26/06/2015 16:06

These are the ghosts of the unwilling dead

From Ghosts, Fire, Water by James Kirkup

liquidrevolution · 26/06/2015 16:06

'Time does not bring relief, you all have lied'

Edna St Vincent Millay

PenguindreamsofDraco · 26/06/2015 16:05

I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul

Invictus, WE Henley

ZeroFunDame · 26/06/2015 16:04

"My tribe is the Asra
Who die when they love"

Heine. Der Asra.

AllThePrettySeahorses · 26/06/2015 16:01

If you ask me,
I would have to say
all the world's magic
comes directly from the mouth

Jane Yolen

FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 26/06/2015 16:01

Xpost with Mehsmum :o

FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 26/06/2015 16:00

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Windhover:-

I caught this morning morning’s minion

FernGullysWoollyPully · 26/06/2015 15:59

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I :
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

MehsMum · 26/06/2015 15:58

World's strand, sway of the sea
Gerard Manley Hopkins in 'Wreck of the Deustchland'

Or

I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon
In his riding of the rolling level
(also Hopkins; I've parsed it wrongly but you'll get the drift)

Charitygirl1 · 26/06/2015 15:57

Woman much missed/how you call to me, call to me

Thomas Hardy

StaircaseAtTheUniversity · 26/06/2015 15:56

Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.

Tell Me the Truth About Love, WH Auden.

Dawndonnaagain · 26/06/2015 15:55

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage...

Richard Lovelace.

ender · 26/06/2015 15:55

"to cease upon the midnight with no pain...." from Ode to a Nightingale.

Such a comforting description of death.

EatMeSeymour · 26/06/2015 15:54

I wish I were two little dogs so I could play together.

Sums up my childhood perfectly.

confusedandemployed · 26/06/2015 15:52

'Rage; rage against the dying of the light'

Sums up exactly how I feel about the end of life.