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Tue Apr-05-11 10:46 AM
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| 24. I heard the old, old men say |
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'everything alters, and one by one we drop away.'
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| -Post the first line of your favorite poem |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 10:14 AM |
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See Jack Run. Run, Jack, Run! |
ChairmanAgnostic |
Apr-05-11 10:16 AM |
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep ... |
mysuzuki2 |
Apr-05-11 11:28 AM |
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pity the poor little pelican |
Atman |
Apr-05-11 10:16 AM |
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When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,...ol' william. nt |
xchrom |
Apr-05-11 10:17 AM |
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Ole Will is in a category all his own |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:12 PM |
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When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought |
Divernan |
Apr-05-11 07:48 PM |
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There was a young man from Nantucket |
kanrok |
Apr-05-11 10:17 AM |
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I can only recall it has the name "Nantucket" in it. |
closeupready |
Apr-05-11 10:18 AM |
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A rabbi, a dog, a lawyer, and an insurance salesman walk .. |
Botany |
Apr-05-11 10:21 AM |
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yeah, mine too |
mimitabby |
Apr-05-11 03:10 PM |
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Open the Door you Dirty Hoar - Its John Boner and the GOP |
FreakinDJ |
Apr-05-11 10:21 AM |
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, |
Ptah |
Apr-05-11 10:22 AM |
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Yo! Me too! |
protect our future |
Apr-05-11 11:10 AM |
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I remember Robert Frost at Kennedys inaguration |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:14 PM |
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I remember how cold it looked. |
Ptah |
Apr-05-11 03:48 PM |
#56 |
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"Twas brillig, and the slythy toves..." |
Richardo |
Apr-05-11 10:22 AM |
#9 |
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you memorized the Jabberwoky? |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:17 PM |
#46 |
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...wocky. |
Richardo |
Apr-05-11 02:30 PM |
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______ |
liberal N proud |
Apr-05-11 10:23 AM |
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Rarely rarely comest thou Spirit of Delight. |
snagglepuss |
Apr-05-11 10:23 AM |
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"Complacencies of the peignoir, and late" |
On the Road |
Apr-05-11 10:23 AM |
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Everyone grumbled, the sky was grey... |
JuniperLea |
Apr-05-11 10:24 AM |
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It's easy to grin |
Vinnie From Indy |
Apr-05-11 10:24 AM |
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"Love's not the way to treat a friend" |
Amerigo Vespucci |
Apr-05-11 10:25 AM |
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Below the thunders of the upper deep; |
Poll_Blind |
Apr-05-11 10:27 AM |
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The boys i mean are not refined |
Bok_Tukalo |
Apr-05-11 10:27 AM |
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If this uncertain age in which we dwell.... |
PDJane |
Apr-05-11 10:28 AM |
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The wind was blowing very hard |
bananas |
Apr-05-11 10:32 AM |
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It would either be: |
MilesColtrane |
Apr-05-11 10:34 AM |
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For I will consider my cat Geoffrey |
yankeepants |
Apr-05-11 10:36 AM |
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The Wreck of the Hesperus |
1620rock |
Apr-05-11 10:43 AM |
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"But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you" |
Divernan |
Apr-05-11 10:38 AM |
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I love that poem |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:20 PM |
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Greedy here... must have another go with a full stanza of something completely different... |
JuniperLea |
Apr-05-11 10:39 AM |
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I heard the old, old men say |
JackintheGreen |
Apr-05-11 10:46 AM |
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I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree |
enlightenment |
Apr-05-11 10:52 AM |
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not the first line, "Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest |
OHdem10 |
Apr-05-11 10:54 AM |
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The remainder of the Frost poem I posted says: |
PDJane |
Apr-06-11 01:06 AM |
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree |
LiberalEsto |
Apr-05-11 10:54 AM |
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, |
nykym |
Apr-05-11 11:04 AM |
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I learned to love poetry reading Poe |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:23 PM |
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood |
protect our future |
Apr-05-11 11:05 AM |
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One step into ecstasy, I lost my watch. |
getting old in mke |
Apr-05-11 11:06 AM |
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, |
damntexdem |
Apr-05-11 11:15 AM |
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oh, grooooooooaaaannnnnn |
PDJane |
Apr-05-11 09:27 PM |
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Breathe there a man with soul so dead |
demigoddess |
Apr-05-11 11:33 AM |
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Oh freddled gruntbuggly |
chaplainM |
Apr-05-11 11:34 AM |
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Vogon Poetry is |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:07 PM |
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WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol..... |
Rowdyboy |
Apr-05-11 12:02 PM |
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no one can compare to Whitman |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:09 PM |
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Last Sentence of Kipling's Gunga Din |
Divernan |
Apr-05-11 12:03 PM |
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I used to read that to my kids |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:10 PM |
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I am the Begum, of Bengal, 142 days out from Canton - homeward bound! |
Divernan |
Apr-05-11 12:13 PM |
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I recently read vol.one of his autobiography |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 02:28 PM |
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The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, |
no_hypocrisy |
Apr-05-11 12:44 PM |
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"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)" |
Sabriel |
Apr-05-11 12:49 PM |
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April is the cruellest month, breeding |
Recursion |
Apr-05-11 02:43 PM |
#51 |
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lilacs from the dead land........... |
PDJane |
Apr-05-11 07:04 PM |
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One must have a mind of winter |
Jim__ |
Apr-05-11 02:43 PM |
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Humanity i love you |
Hun Joro |
Apr-05-11 03:13 PM |
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"It is spring in the mountains, I come alone seeking you" |
KitSileya |
Apr-05-11 03:33 PM |
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LOL........yeah, me too....... |
PDJane |
Apr-05-11 07:29 PM |
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I went out to the hazel wood |
SheilaT |
Apr-05-11 07:15 PM |
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Donovan sets Yeats' words to music in the 70s |
SwissTony |
Sep-22-11 05:21 AM |
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Thanks for this lovely thread in these terrible times - we all needed it! |
Divernan |
Apr-05-11 07:45 PM |
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you are welcome |
JitterbugPerfume |
Apr-05-11 07:52 PM |
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i sing of Olaf glad and big... |
Mister Ed |
Apr-05-11 07:55 PM |
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I met a traveler from an antique land ... nt |
eppur_se_muova |
Apr-05-11 10:19 PM |
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Ah, yes.......... |
PDJane |
Apr-05-11 11:42 PM |
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It seems to be more about the futility of aggrandizement, in general. |
eppur_se_muova |
Apr-06-11 01:15 PM |
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Indeed....and I agree. |
PDJane |
Apr-06-11 01:37 PM |
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Sunset and evening star.... nt |
raccoon |
Apr-06-11 09:22 AM |
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Crossing the Bar...Sir Alfred, Lord Tennyson. |
PDJane |
Apr-06-11 01:06 PM |
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There is no Alice Walker or John Donne.......... |
PDJane |
Apr-06-11 01:32 PM |
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The Rubaiyat |
pscot |
Apr-07-11 08:04 PM |
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I saw a chapel all of gold |
Lionel Mandrake |
Apr-17-11 12:14 AM |
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Full of her long white arms |
mzteris |
Apr-17-11 11:40 AM |
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I met a traveler from an antique land |
WaitingforKarlRove |
Apr-17-11 03:26 PM |
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I think that I shall never see.... |
fadedrose |
Apr-17-11 08:39 PM |
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When I came to sex in full, not sex |
BlueIris |
Apr-20-11 10:46 AM |
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If I were a cinnamon peeler |
elehhhhna |
Apr-27-11 06:09 PM |
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Nature's first green is gold |
Onceuponalife |
May-01-11 12:42 AM |
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"Not in a silver casket cool with pearls..." |
mak3cats |
May-17-11 11:57 AM |
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This the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock... |
classof56 |
May-17-11 02:31 PM |
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Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs |
primavera |
Jun-11-11 05:58 PM |
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I must go down to the sea again |
sea_dream |
Jul-24-11 09:42 PM |
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, |
LWolf |
Jul-25-11 01:22 PM |
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Should I post just the first line or the whole thing? |
dmallind |
Aug-02-11 09:26 AM |
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"Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else,... |
Fornit_Some_Fornus |
Aug-08-11 11:45 AM |
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There are strange things done in the midnight sun |
Little Star |
Aug-09-11 11:49 AM |
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"At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain," |
petronius |
Aug-25-11 11:26 PM |
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre" nt |
Mist |
Aug-26-11 07:18 PM |
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+1 |
Bonobo |
Sep-04-11 11:32 AM |
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+2, possibly the most important poem, by the best English poet, EVAR! /nt |
Rabblevox |
Sep-05-11 08:11 PM |
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One of my favorites of late: |
D-Fens |
Sep-01-11 10:08 AM |
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My heart aches and a drowsy numbness |
ellie |
Sep-06-11 02:45 PM |
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We are the hollow men |
demoblemocratic |
Sep-11-11 08:08 PM |
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This Poem |
bemildred |
Sep-15-11 06:35 PM |
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To see a world in a grain of sand... |
drokhole |
Sep-17-11 11:22 PM |
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Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen |
SwissTony |
Sep-22-11 05:31 AM |
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone-W.H. Auden |
DearHeart |
Oct-05-11 07:19 PM |
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Wordsworth.... |
MountainMama |
Nov-04-11 03:32 PM |
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer |
Sabriel |
Nov-05-11 09:41 AM |
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My candle burns at both ends... |
Moe Shinola |
Nov-06-11 09:48 PM |
#103 |
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