A Favorite Poem

DWill · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:11 am Post subject:

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DWill · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

giselle · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: sequels

thanks dwill, i was thinking about how the Passionate Shepherd/Nymph demonstrates the sequel idea when i posted this...

also i'm thinking about the origins of writing and poetry, at least in English, and about the epic poem, how this might relate to the telling of stories/oral history tradition that predated writing and still exists today. i imagine in the oral tradition, one may have 'memorized' a story/poem and then the story is added too and enhanced as it is told, becoming an oral sequel and maybe an epic .. one such epic that comes to mind is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. this is written as a single poem but originally it may have been a string of oral sequels (pure speculation on my part).

now that you have posted these two poems together and I read them as one, i like the 'conversation' that the Shepherd and Nymph have. i still think the Nymph is pretty demanding, but then, maybe that is just how Nymphs are.

Saffron · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject:

I am still thinking about the pairs of poems and haven't come up with one yet. Instead, here is a favorite Emily Dickinson and also it is a poem of the moment.

She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh, housewife in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!

You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!

And still she plies her spotted brooms,
And still the aprons fly,
Till brooms fade softly into stars
And then I come away.

realiz · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject:

A poem of the night.

Wild Nights
By Emily Dickinson
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Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile the winds
To a heart in port,
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.
Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

Saffron · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

giselle · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject:

Saffron · Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

I love this poem. My daughter read it during our 4th Advent celebration.

Simplex Munditiis

Still to be neat, still to be dressed,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powdered, still perfumed:
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

farmgirlshelley · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

I love the Wild Geese Poem. I have never heard it before.
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farmgirlshelley · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: The Sick Rose

I have so many favorites, here is one that I really like

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Saffron · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject:


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