Favourite line from a poem...

[Dippers Donuts]

Ok, well I'm really bored so you guys will have to listen...

My all time favourite line from a poem is by that wondrous metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell;

"But at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near;
and yonder all before us lie,
deserts of vast eternity."

Sterling stuff!!

 

[Santos L Helper]

'There was a young man from Nantucket'

 

[Dippers Donuts]

Originally posted by Santos L Helper
'There was a young man from Nantucket'

Ingrate!!

 

[aggels]

Originally posted by Dippers Donuts


"But at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near;
and yonder all before us lie,
deserts of vast eternity."

Sterling stuff!!

His Coy Mistress? I like that poem,

My favourite poem is
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving by drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.



One of my other favourite poems is "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. I just love the bitterness that comes out just by reading it, but it's too long to type here.

 

[Dippers Donuts]

nice poem aggels.

as for sylvia plath, she was one sick puppy...

 

[aggels]

Originally posted by Dippers Donuts


as for sylvia plath, she was one sick puppy...

She sure was, but fascinating all the same.

 

[Dippers Donuts]

true she was, I always liked the inscription on her head stone;
"even amidst fierce flames the Golden Lotus can be planted."

 

[aggels]

Because it's Friday night, and a boring one at that.
Emily Dickinson.



BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then ’t is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.

 

[ant]

Don't call me lad dad,
just don't call me lad,
got more hair on my balls dad,
than you've got or had

Geoffrey Goodfellow

 

[Darky]

Mine is the siggy below.

 

[aggels]

And because I feel like being a thread hog tonight, that whole stanza has extremely powerful images.
*sigh* I need to get out more.

Originally posted by Dippers Donuts


"But at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near;
and yonder all before us lie,
deserts of vast eternity."

Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave 's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace

 

[Dippers Donuts]

Re: Re: Favourite line from a poem...

Originally posted by aggels
And because I feel like being a thread hog tonight, that whole stanza has extremely powerful images.
*sigh* I need to get out more.



Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave 's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace

Shall we start rambling on about John Donne?
Valediction forbidding mourning? - "Sweetest love I do not go.."

maybe not, getting late..

 

[aggels]

Heh, you know, I think that's enough poetry about death for one evening.

 

[Duck Smuth]

Thus one ulways guts me going ...

"Luttle Bo Peep hus lost her sheep
Und doesn't know whire to find thum
Leave thum alone und thuy'll come home
Wugging thir tails behind thum."

Just the thought uf ull those sheep wugging thir tails! Sorry, I've got to go und whuck off now!

 

[Mags]

Lol

Lmao!

Mags

 

[The Hitman]

I only write poems when I am really depressed, or really in love.

Anyway, my favorites are my own, because I understand them...

The Hitman

 

[powerboi]

I thought the topic said "line", not "lines" or even "entire poems"

Mine is :

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

-- last line of "Invictus" by William E. Henley