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[pat]

I need poetry. Any suggestions?

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[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

What kind of poetry? For an event, or a given mood?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Robert Herrick

Most famous for, "Gather ye rosebuds"

He, like Herbert, is addressing issues of man's relationship to the divine, but from an earthy point of view, to Herbert's more intellectual.

Though both can be earthy.

TK

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
Yet the menace of the years finds
And, shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

William Earnest Henley


Hope that helps a little bit.

unafraid.

[godmoma.livejournal.com]

Dorothy Parker.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Earthy... um, yeah. : ) I looked up some of his poems. I loved his "Julia" poems.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Coleridge did a parody of "Whenas in silks my Julia goes"

The Cynthia poems are also quite nice.

IIRC Herrick did a poem, which hearkend back to a Thomas Campion, "Cherry Ripe."

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I referred to Invictus in a thread about the troll I was beating up on.

All in all, I think it a weak poem.

But that's just me.

TK

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the troll. The one over in jmhm's journal?

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

You might like his other stuff better.

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