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#5168 05/26/01 07:37 PM
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Oh, where do I start!! Y'all have reminded me of things I've forgot and things I never knew.

One of my favs is Masefield's Cargoes, simply for what it taught me about sound in poetry:

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds
Emeralds, amethysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road rail, pig lead,
Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin trays.


-- John Masefield


#5169 05/27/01 03:47 AM
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Here's one of my favorites ("Hyla" is a breed of frog that inhabits the brook); I especially love the poignant last line:

HYLA BROOK

by Robert Frost

By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago
Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow)--
Or flourished and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way it's waters went.
Its bed is left a faded paper sheet
Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat--
A brook to none but who remember long.
This as it will be seen is other far
Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.
We love the things we love for what they are.

By the way, you lovers of verse might well enjoy a great site I frequent: <eMule.com> The Poetry Archives
They have over 3,500 classic poems archived (mid-20th Century and back), and an interesting and lively discussion forum. So click on over and maybe I'll meet you there!


#5170 05/27/01 11:18 AM
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wow requests: tsuwm, A great idea to start this thread. Perhaps you might consider "#2" as this is getting rather long?

wow, BobYB has done this for us. See Sonnets etc right down thar


#5171 05/28/01 08:34 PM
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Ah-HA!
Hasn't been good last couple of days ... my computer DIED and I am at a cybercafe with all the town's computer junkies ... I needed a FIX. (Confirmation that this place is an addiction.) Computer Magic Man comes Wednesday ... Will I survive? Will $$$ hold out?
Hold good thoughts. Do not expect any answers to Email for a few days.
Thank you for allowing me to post this...
wow


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I do not like this thread to break yet so here is another sublime rhyme.


Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(An excerpt)

The awful shadow of some unseen power
Floats though unseen among us--visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower--
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening--
Like clouds in starlight widely spread--
Like memory of music fled--
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form--where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Ask why the sunlight not forever
weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom--why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?


Percy Bysshe Shelley

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