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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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funnypeculiar · 23/03/2007 21:52

Spidermama - no idea

themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 21:53

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Blandmum · 23/03/2007 21:53

Try this one

I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.

Miaou · 23/03/2007 21:53

Spidermama - is it Keats?

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:54

And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul......

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SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:54

TMJ

Is there anybody there said the traveller knocking on the moonlit door........

Miaou · 23/03/2007 21:55

How about this:

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
Before high-piled books in charactry
Hold like the garner, the full-ripened grain ...

(etc - I won't put it all in)

Blandmum · 23/03/2007 21:55

Walter de la mare

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:55

Miaou it's Houseman.

Miaou · 23/03/2007 21:56

OOh yes Sherlock - who is that by? I used to recite that when I was a kid ... author is on the tip of my tongue ...

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:56

Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh whats his name............

Frost, Robert Frost that is it, I hope....

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Swizzler · 23/03/2007 21:56

An easy one

Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward,
And the woman calling.

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Miaou · 23/03/2007 21:56

Ah right spidey!

at me forgetting WdlM's name

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:56

Sherlock that's fab isn't it?
Walter de la Mare?

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:56

Miaou

It starts...

I felt a funeral in my brain.........

Miaou · 23/03/2007 21:57

Whose is Robert Frost?

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Winestein · 23/03/2007 21:57

Was yours Oscar Wilde Spidermama?

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:57

Whoops! A couple of hours late with that.

SherlockLGJ · 23/03/2007 21:57

Emily Dickinson.

Go to the top of the class...

Spidermama · 23/03/2007 21:58

No wines it's A E Houseman.

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