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[nny]

I'm reading through my favourite poems - I shall probably make a post about some later - but what are yours?

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[muji]

Arthur Rimbaud - Le Dormeur du Val (Sleeper of the Valley). Essentially: "Oh, look at the soldier boy taking a nap by the river, how quaint and picturesque except for the fact that HE TOOK TWO TO THE CHEST."

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

And They Were Both Right, by Kapka Kassabova
In Defence of Adultery, by Julia Copus
Bitcherel, by Eleanor Brown
To Eva, Descending The Stair, by Sylvia Plath
The Dugout, by Siegfried Sassoon
Turn, Turn, Turn, by Adrian Mitchell
This Be The Verse, by Philip Larkin
McActivity The Mystery Cat, T S Eliot
Not Waving But Drowning, by Stevie Smith
Funeral Blues by W H Auden

... there are more. I like children's poetry (OH. OH A A MILNE) and romantic poetry and bitchy couplets and limmericks and narrative epics.

POST ABOUT POETRY SO I FEEL LESS ALONE.

Also, like, the WHOLE of Dorothy Parker's ... work.

[(Anonymous)]

"Having a Coke With You" by Frank O'Hara <3

[corchen.livejournal.com]

all time favourite:

Prince, when I took your goblet tall,
And smashed it with inebriate care,
I knew not how from Rome to Gaul
You gained it; I was unaware-

It stood by Charlemagne's guest chair,
And served Saint Peter at High Mass.
I'm sorry if the thing were rare...
I like the sound of breaking glass...

G.K. Chesterton.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Funeral Blues (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/funeral-blues-2/) by WH Auden (which, yay, someone above said too) and His Coy Mistress (http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm) by Andrew Marvell and its rejoinder (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1568.html) by AD Hope.

(Or okay, really, my favourite poems are song lyrics, but I'm trying to be classy here...)

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head:

"Kubla Khan," (http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The Relic," (http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/relic.php) John Donne
"A Second Childhood," (http://earldonald.blogspot.com/2008/01/second-childhood.html) G. K. Chesterton
"The Jumblies," (http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html) Edward Lear
"Lovers how they come and part," (http://innocentsmith.livejournal.com/4652.html) Robert Herrick
"Jabberwocky," (http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html) Lewis Carroll
"The Prediction," (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179132) Mark Strand
Tom o' Bedlam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_O%27Bedlam), Anonymous

[kassie-opia.livejournal.com]

"Marina", by TS Eliot (and also The Hollow Men)
"Nevertheless", by Marianne Moore
Also Iliad 24. Although it is about 600 lines long. Um.

[batyatoon]

Oh god so many too many to name.

But here's one off the top of my head: Peter Vierreck, "Vale From Carthage".

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

A few favs:

Adrienne Rich, "Splittings (http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2007/05/09/from-splitting/)" (link is to just an excerpt)

Theodore Roethke, "Night Journey (http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Theodore_Roethke/2435)"

Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice (http://www.online-literature.com/frost/744/)"

Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art (http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15212)"

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? Do you realise that I have a folder stuffed full of "favourite" poems on my computer? That I keep Lit class anthologies?

Here is almost everything in my poetry folder:

A.D. Hope, "Advice to Young Ladies"
Katherine Philips, "Against Love"
Anonymous, "She lay all naked in her bed"
E.A. Robinson, "How Annandale Went Out"
H.D., "At Baia"
W.H. Auden, "Lullaby"
Sylvia Plath, "Mad Girl's Love Song"
Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Andrew Hudgins, "Wasps in August"
Emily Bronte, "Remembrance"
John Donne, "Sonnet 14"
Claude McKay, "The Harlem Dancer"
William Blake, "The Clod and the Pebble"
George Gordon, "In Silence and Tears" and "For Music"
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Alexander Pope, "Eloise to Abelard"
Marilyn Hacker, "Bloomingdale's I" and "Lacoste IV"
Julian Grenfell, "To A Black Greyhound"
Tami Haaland, "Findings"
Thomas Hardy, "In the Vaulted Way"
John Harington, "Of An Heroical Answer of a Great Roman Lady to Her Husband"
Jessica Goodfellow, "In Praise of Imperfect Love"
Anonymous, "I gently touched her hand"
Housman, "Epitaph: On an Army of Mercenaries"
Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman"
Robert Herrick, "To His Mistress"
William Henley, "Invictus"
Fyodor Tyutchev, "Last Love"
Cecil Day Lewis, "Come, live with me and be my love"
Thomas Peacock, "Love and Age"
W.D. Snograss, "No Use"
George Meredith, "Modern Love"
Theordore Rothke, "The Meadow Mouse" and "She"
Robert Frost, "The Oven-Bird"
Linda Pastan, "The Imperfect Paradise"
John Ransom, "Piazza Piece"
Christina Rossetti, "Promises Like Pie-Crust"
Ranier Rilke, "The Possibility of Being"
A.C. Swinburne, "Proserpine"
R.S. Gwynn, "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins"
T.S. Eliot, "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"
John Betjeman, "The Lift Man"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"
Wilfred Blunt, "Farewell to Juliet"

Plus bunches of stuff by Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rudyard Kipling, John Wilmot (filthy-minded man!), Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.


...I, ah, guess it's easy to tell a Lit major at twenty paces, yeah? ((blushes))

[bansidhe]

I'm terribly fond of Anne Sexton's Knee Song, and e.e. cumming's love is a spring at which (not that the first line is really its title).

I like them short and full of imagery. :}

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

The Truro Bear (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-truro-bear/) - Mary Oliver

I Knew a Woman (http://gawow.com/roethke/poems/122.html) - Theodore Roethke

A Birthday Present (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-birthday-present/) - Sylvia Plath


... And The Divine Comedy, because I am a HUGE NERD.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I always forget to keep track of poems I like :P

Oh, here's one. http://robotprophet.com/lostlibrary/howmuchstring.txt

Michael Tieg.