Poetry and Perusing
I'm cold... and I'd jump up and down and say 'hot, buttered toast'... but then I'd feel like a mushroom.
Anyhow, the point of this post... favourite lines of poetry people! (And yes, there's a point to this, I need them for my D-mod.)
I don't need whole poems, just a line or two here and there... or a stanza even. Doesn't matter if its classical or contemporary... romantic or radical. Am not fussed, just would like some variety.
Thanks in advance,
Ice (determined NOT to feel like a mushroom. Or a toadstool.)
Anyhow, the point of this post... favourite lines of poetry people! (And yes, there's a point to this, I need them for my D-mod.)
I don't need whole poems, just a line or two here and there... or a stanza even. Doesn't matter if its classical or contemporary... romantic or radical. Am not fussed, just would like some variety.
Thanks in advance,
Ice (determined NOT to feel like a mushroom. Or a toadstool.)
Oeh oeh, I always liked:
'Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
Alone and palely loitering
The sedge has withered rom the lake
And no birds sing'
and (from the same poem)
'I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.'
(La belle dame sans merci - Keats http://www.bartleby.com/126/55.html)
And (about an poisonous apple growing on a tree of hatred)
'And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
(A poison tree - William Blake http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/35)
And I always liked 'To His Coy Mistress, which tells us all about how he terribly wants to f*ck a girl
I don't know how to link so to read that poem, see here: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
Ghehe, anyway, there's a lot of poetry I really like, but it's quite hard to just choose a few lines from one, since you usually need the whole poem to make it 'work' right. Maybe I'm a little overexcited on this topic anyway...
Oh well, at least this is a start, right?
'Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
Alone and palely loitering
The sedge has withered rom the lake
And no birds sing'
and (from the same poem)
'I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.'
(La belle dame sans merci - Keats http://www.bartleby.com/126/55.html)
And (about an poisonous apple growing on a tree of hatred)
'And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
(A poison tree - William Blake http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/35)
And I always liked 'To His Coy Mistress, which tells us all about how he terribly wants to f*ck a girl
I don't know how to link so to read that poem, see here: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htmGhehe, anyway, there's a lot of poetry I really like, but it's quite hard to just choose a few lines from one, since you usually need the whole poem to make it 'work' right. Maybe I'm a little overexcited on this topic anyway...
Oh well, at least this is a start, right?
-She walks in beauty like the night...
-Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
-Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock...
-Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
-Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock...
Thanks... oh, and btw Carrie, I'm already using Byron's 'She walks in beauty like the night'... thanks very much for all the suggestions ladies!
Keep them coming...
Keep them coming...
I'll just let you all know... the main poets featuring in PPP are Yeats, Byron, Robert Burns, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson... with a bit of T.S.Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe and also the sonnets of Shakespeare. But I'd be happy for excerpts from anyone... and hey, if you fancy sending me a few lines of a poem of your own creation, I'll be sure to include them!
