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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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themildmanneredjanitor · 23/03/2007 22:54

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workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:56

oi franny,
come join the shakespeare thread..

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:57

oi franny,
come join the shakespeare thread..

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Swizzler · 23/03/2007 22:57

Got it! From Me Tarzan:

He shoves the frosted attic skylight, shouts:
Ah bloody can't ah've gorra Latin prose.
His bodiless head that's poking out's
like patriarchal Sissy-bleeding-ro's.

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Swizzler · 23/03/2007 22:58

Love the Martin Newell {grin]

Now I've found that wretched poem, can go to bed! Night all

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FrannyandZooey · 23/03/2007 23:01

oh lord, there is a Shakespeare thread?

it is WAY past my bedtime

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 23:02

and mine.
see you there tomorrow.
must must must go to bed

Jessicatmagnificat · 24/03/2007 10:06

Can we start this game again? How about:

"I'm Nobody,who are you?
Are you nobody too?"

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Swizzler · 24/03/2007 19:32

ooh ooh, I knows it, I knows it...

Kipling?

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amynnixmum · 24/03/2007 19:33

Emily dickensen?

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Swizzler · 24/03/2007 20:09

I had in in a kids anthology. Can't for the life of me remember it

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Swizzler · 24/03/2007 20:10

It is Emily Dickinson (well done there - I was way off )

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filthymindedvixen · 24/03/2007 20:24

wish I'd seen this thread yesterday

''And this is why I sojourn here
alone and paley loitering
The hedge has withered from the lake
And no birds sing.''

(sorry if this is slightly wrong, it's from memory - the bleakness of that last line.....my fave)

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 20:25

FMV - La belle dame sans merci!

filthymindedvixen · 24/03/2007 20:48

yes!

choosyfloosy · 24/03/2007 21:05

[late to the party and very conventional]

She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 21:06

byron

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Swizzler · 24/03/2007 21:07

Yeats, isn't it?

Also love

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book
And (something) read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once and of theor shadows deep

Old romantic me!

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funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 21:07

oh, my turn.

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Swizzler · 24/03/2007 21:08

Bugger. It is Byron, isn't it?

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funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 21:08

oh, bugger, was it yeats
(love your Maud Gonne one, swizzler)

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 21:08

lol!

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donnie · 24/03/2007 21:11

'In the pit of red / You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness.// But the jewel you lost was blue.'

have only just found this thread!

anyone else love this poem to death? (clue).