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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 10 of 10 1 2 … 8 9 10 Re: High Flight #5168 05/26/01 07:37 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 87 City of Brotherly Love, no not... N nikeblack journeyman nikeblack journeyman N Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 87 City of Brotherly Love, no not... 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sublime Rhyme #5169 05/27/01 03:47 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: High Flight #5170 05/27/01 11:18 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: High Flight #5171 05/28/01 08:34 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: High Flight #5172 06/01/01 06:23 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 275 W wordcrazy enthusiast wordcrazy enthusiast W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 275 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 chronist Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 10 of 10 1 2 … 8 9 10 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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