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Favourite poems - identify the writer and add your own?

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Swizzler · 23/03/2007 21:37

(as I can't remember my Shakespeare )

What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter

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Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:40

TS Eliot. Marina.

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:41

I'm trying to think of one ...

Swizzler · 23/03/2007 21:41

Phew - thought there'd be tumbleweeds on this one

you have to add one as well, or I'll be forced to...

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SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:42

Then all time is unredeemable............

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:43

The laws of God, the laws of man
He may keep that will and can
Not I: Let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;

And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and most condemn
Yet when did I make laws for them?

themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 21:44

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Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:45

An Irish airman forsees his death?

By, um, er ....

themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 21:45

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Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:45

DH running upstairs to get book.

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:45

TMJ

An airman forsees his death....

WB Yeats..............

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SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:46

Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;

This line always makes me cry.......

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:47

I have a beautiful hard back book with that in it....................

Off to find the publication date of my book. I loved it.

themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 21:47

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Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:47

S'cuse me but I notice nobody is bothering to guess my poem in post 21:43.

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:50

I bought it in 1983.... just a minute ago, or..........nearly 25 years old.

themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 21:50

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Blandmum · 23/03/2007 21:51

Dylan Thomas

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SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:51

SpiderMama

'tis too obscure for me.

funnypeculiar · 23/03/2007 21:51

Mildmanneredjanitor - Dylan Thomas, is it called Rage, Rage, or is that just the line I always remember?

CadburyCremeSquonk · 23/03/2007 21:52

Spidermama - dp and I agree we like the poem, but we don't know it

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Swizzler · 23/03/2007 21:52

AE Houseman

(confesses: I googled it And me an English graduate)

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