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which poem/poems left a permanent impression on you?
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Peder
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The greatest love poems I know:
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by the Bard, William Shakespeare.
But first and foremost, St. Paul's Paean to Love -- although perhaps not strictly a poem, unless in free verse (1 Cor 13: 1-13).
From the Marriage Service:
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love . . "
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by the Bard, William Shakespeare.
But first and foremost, St. Paul's Paean to Love -- although perhaps not strictly a poem, unless in free verse (1 Cor 13: 1-13).
From the Marriage Service:
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love . . "
savvyambrose
New Member
Louise Gluck's Mock Orange
Frank Bidart's Ellen Page
Oliver Goldsmith's Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Christina Rossetti's Symbols (Is thy wrath just? And what if God,
Who waiteth for thy fruits in vain,
Should also take the rod?)
Good stuff - and great thread too, I need some good poetry recommendations.
Frank Bidart's Ellen Page
Oliver Goldsmith's Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Christina Rossetti's Symbols (Is thy wrath just? And what if God,
Who waiteth for thy fruits in vain,
Should also take the rod?)
Good stuff - and great thread too, I need some good poetry recommendations.
Mer_Blackwood
New Member
"She Walks in Beauty," Cain, and Manfred, by Byron.
The Awntyrs off Arthure, author unknown.
"Ulysses," by Tennyson.
"The Wild Honeysuckle," by Philip Frenau.
"The Glories of Our Blood and State," James Shirley.
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray.
The Ballad of the White Horse, by G.K. Chesterton.
"The World is Too Much With Us," by Wordsworth.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs, by William Morris.
"Kubla Khan," by Coleridge.
The Awntyrs off Arthure, author unknown.
"Ulysses," by Tennyson.
"The Wild Honeysuckle," by Philip Frenau.
"The Glories of Our Blood and State," James Shirley.
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray.
The Ballad of the White Horse, by G.K. Chesterton.
"The World is Too Much With Us," by Wordsworth.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs, by William Morris.
"Kubla Khan," by Coleridge.
gonewiththewind
Member
The Raven
A Fool's Prayer
The House by the Side of the Road
Many poems from 101 Famous Poems...
A Fool's Prayer
The House by the Side of the Road
Many poems from 101 Famous Poems...
Dear, Though the Night Is Gone by W. H. Auden
Dear, though the night is gone,
Its dream still haunts today,
That brought us to a room
Cavernous, lofty as
A railway terminus,
And crowded in that gloom
Were beds, and we in one
In a far corner lay.
Our whisper woke no clocks,
We kissed and I was glad
At everything you did,
Indifferent to those
Who sat with hostile eyes
In pairs on every bed,
Arms round each other's neck,
Inert and vaguely sad.
O but what worm of guilt
Or what malignant doubt
Am I the victim of,
That you then, unabashed,
Did what I never wished,
Confessed another love;
And I, submissive, felt
Unwanted and went out?
Dear, though the night is gone,
Its dream still haunts today,
That brought us to a room
Cavernous, lofty as
A railway terminus,
And crowded in that gloom
Were beds, and we in one
In a far corner lay.
Our whisper woke no clocks,
We kissed and I was glad
At everything you did,
Indifferent to those
Who sat with hostile eyes
In pairs on every bed,
Arms round each other's neck,
Inert and vaguely sad.
O but what worm of guilt
Or what malignant doubt
Am I the victim of,
That you then, unabashed,
Did what I never wished,
Confessed another love;
And I, submissive, felt
Unwanted and went out?
JCMoney218
New Member
'The Raven' by Poe has always been my favorite.
'The Road Not Taken' Robert Frost
'Funeral Blues' W.H. Auden
'The Road Not Taken' Robert Frost
'Funeral Blues' W.H. Auden
SFG75
Well-Known Member
John Keats; When I have fears that I may cease to be
-When you are young, you think you are virtually indestructable. I was involved in a car accident and was thrown around the vehicle like a tin can when I was in high school. That incident led me to conclude that I truly was indestructable. This poem reminded me otherwise during my early college years and got me to think a lot farther than my nose.
-When you are young, you think you are virtually indestructable. I was involved in a car accident and was thrown around the vehicle like a tin can when I was in high school. That incident led me to conclude that I truly was indestructable. This poem reminded me otherwise during my early college years and got me to think a lot farther than my nose.
MizzrMouse
New Member
'If' by Rudyard Kipling has always been one I enjoyed. But my two favorite by far are 'La Saeta' by Antonio Machado and 'Romance Sonámbulo' by Federico García Lorca. They're in Spanish and are absolutely beautiful, but the English translations are really good as well!