I hope this thread survives the Ides of April, what with the gloom of the happy cats down at the I, R, and S. But a rich diet of even the most expensive poems needs a refreshingly moderately-priced, tone-wine to clear the jaded palate. So here I offer an interlude, a sampling, such as it am, of my selections of the most pleasing, or the most sonorous, extracts from mankind's poetry.
And sup til times and times are done
the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.
-Yeats
If the red slayer thinks that he has slayed
And the slain believes that he is slain
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep,
I turn, and pass, and live again.
- Emerson
When robot mice and robot men run 'round in robot towns.
- Bradbury
the bird of time has but a short way to flutter
And Lo, the bird is on the wing.
- Omar
Damsel with a dulcimer ...etc.
- Coleridge
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
-King James Bible.
Over the mountains of the moon, down the valley of the shadow
Ride boldly ride, the Shade replied, if you seek for Eldorado.
-Poe.And so forth...
