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))
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Date: 2008-10-03 03:31 am (UTC)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))