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

Swizzler - not Hardy

Roald Dahl.........

Now away with you.....you charlatan....

Greenandblackotter's is (I think) Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti.

Little Willie with a shout,
Gouged the baby's eyeballs out;
Stamped on them to make them pop.
Mother cried, "Now, William, stop!"

It's not Shakespeare, is it, Miaou? (Makes me think of 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes').

GBOtter sorry no idea.....

Oh well done swizzler! Tis my fave poem (I like the sad ones). He was nursing his brother who was terminally ill at the time he wrote it. He died young too - so poignant.

It was either that or a bit of Belloc

(and me a literature graduate too)

Mine is Rosetti Goblin market

Just to clarify - "When I have fears that I may cease to be" - is Keats.

I think Glitterkitty's is a Harry Graham Ruthless Rhyme?

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me
And let there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to sea.

Anyone?

coleridge

Berolina;s is Sylvia Plath

??

yup

not Coleridge.

Kathy, yes it is! hope it didnt offend anyone of a sensitive nature...

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will

Kathy: it's that bloke ... the tall one ... Matthew Arnold?