Subject: Name your favorite poem.
Posted by: Les_Johnson
Date: Dec 10 07
Mine is Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound. It puts lead in my pencil everytime I read it. Les
Posted by: Les_Johnson
Date: Dec 10 07
Mine is Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound. It puts lead in my pencil everytime I read it. Les
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hplover13
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Fire and Ice By Robert Frost Reply #41. Mar 05 08, 5:22 PM |
just4witchypoo 
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"The Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key. Reply #42. Mar 08 08, 12:24 PM |
LyrA2
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Ithaca by C.P. Cavafy. This version is beautiful. Sean Connery. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk Reply #43. Apr 15 08, 6:01 AM |
benniebenbenny
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Not so much a poem as an actual epitaph composed by his widow, Lester Moore was an actual American cowboy, a Wells Fargo station agent from Arizona in the 1880's. His Boot Hill cemetary epitaph states: Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a .44 No Les no More. (Excellent!) Reply #44. Apr 15 08, 6:21 AM |
| benniebenbenny
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Sorry, although I was aware of this ditty for many years, it now seems this composition might be nothing more (Moore!) or less (Les!) than a hoax. LOL. Reply #45. Apr 15 08, 6:23 AM |
| LyrA2
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Very clever Ben. I like that. Reply #46. Apr 15 08, 1:17 PM |
poshprice
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I love Shakespeare's sonnets and also the poetry of R.S Thomas. Reply #47. Sep 06 08, 11:42 AM |
jolana
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, everything by William Blake, and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Reply #48. Sep 08 08, 3:40 PM |
JaneofGaunt
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"Tam o' Shanter" by Robert Burns "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Sir Walter Scott "Home Thoughts from Abroad" by Robert Browning Reply #49. Sep 09 08, 10:35 AM |
Pagiedamon
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I love so many poems, but here a few that come to mind: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe) I Heard a Fly Buzz...(Emily Dickinson) The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost) Killing the Bear (Judith Minty) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe) Ok...I better stop now, or else I will go on and on. Reply #50. Sep 09 08, 11:22 AM |
| sherry75
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The Listeners 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head And he smote upon the door again a second time; 'Is there anybody there?' he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, 'Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:- 'Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,' he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone. -- Walter De La Mare Reply #51. Sep 09 08, 12:24 PM |
Cymruambyth
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Choosing a favourite poem is like choosing a favourite child! I'm a big fan of Shakespeare, too, along with Keats, Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, de la Mare, Noyes, Houseman, and the ultimate Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Reply #52. Sep 09 08, 2:12 PM |
harryfan31
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i have a favorite poem its called Life. Reply #53. Oct 09 08, 11:30 AM |
| CoolTeen
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"Daffodils" by William Wordsworth. Reply #54. Jan 02 09, 10:00 AM |
Mouldy-Carpets
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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? Spike Milligan Reply #55. Jan 02 09, 11:50 AM |
Rowena8482
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Vitae Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt. Reply #56. Jan 02 09, 4:32 PM |
ravenclawgurl
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i really like annabell lee by edgar allen poe Reply #57. Jan 02 09, 9:18 PM |
| srpolb3
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I agree i love anabell lee but my favorite poem is rainbows i do now know who it is by. If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you. And share with you it's beauty On the days you're feeling blue. If I could build a mountain You could call your very own. A place to find serenity A place to be alone. If I could take your troubles I would toss them in the sea. But all these things I'm finding are impossible for me, I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair But let me be...what I know best, a friend that's always there Reply #58. Jan 04 09, 7:01 PM |
zebra101
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale Reply #59. Jan 07 09, 3:55 PM |
rosmarinus44
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I have many favourite poems but these are very poignant at the moment. Woman much missed by Thomas Hardy Che fece... il gran fuiuto and as much as you can by Contantine P Cavafay Reply #60. Feb 03 09, 1:16 AM |
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