Favourite poems - identify the writer and add your own?

[Swizzler]

(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

I knew that! Only bit of Betjeman I do know...

Me Miss, Pick Me! John Betjeman miss!

There isn't grass to graze a cow
Swarm over, death!

there isn't grassto grazea cow

ach FP, x-post!!!

Yes Auden. In memory of W B Yeats. Includes my fave ever line: 'You were silly like us: your gift survived it all'

Choosy: what is it? Never read it but sounds fab

Betjeman - Slough I believe?

oops didn't read recent posts !!

yes it is Blake's Auguries of Innocence.

Yes, choosy - v nice...

I've loved this ever since I was a student....

it may not always be so;and i say
that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch
another's,and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart,as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know,or such
great writhing words as,uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

if this should be,i say if this should be-
you of my heart,send me a little word;
that i may go unto him,and take his hands,
saying,Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

next!!!!

I want to know Choosy's! And she's buggered orf!

is it rossetti?

Ok, first one to get this gets 'star of the week' -
...Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
and heedless hearts is lawful prize;
nor all that glisters gold.

Full title is important.........

(goggled choosy's and know the answer if she doesn;t come back soon - never heard of him...)

vwrses on a cat - shelley?

do i get a shiny????

or this :
'Like as a ship that through the ocean wide/By conduct of some star doth make her way'

THomas Gray, On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
(ok I cheated - I recognised it so I grabbed the book off the shelf for title)

On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray.

Xposted, honest!

I get the shiny though
oh God I'm so competitive.

doh, didn't know proper title

Wislawa Szymborska - obviously - Under One Small Star. She's a Nobel Prize winner and Polish.

I only encountered her very recently when dh randomly took her collected poems out of the library and we have both been smitten.

snipers i love that so much but can't for the life of me remember whose it is...