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#252667 06/05/06 10:42 PM
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Mine is "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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She walks in Beauty,
Like the night
Through cloudless climes
And starry skies

And all that's best
Of dark and light
Meets in her aspect
And her eyes.


I may have a word or two off; that's just off the top of my head.


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[color:"green"] THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. [/color]

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Kubla Khan by Coleridge

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My favorite is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot. I remember doing a comparative essay of this poem and Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice". Both offer so much imagery, especially "ragged claws scuttling" along the ocean floor.

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I have many favorites poems. One of them is "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost. I prefer poems by American poets.

Robert Frost lived, for a time, in my home state of New Hampshire, although he also lived in Vermont, so they claim him, too. Emily Dickinson, who lived in nearby Massachusetts is another all time favorite poet.

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my favorite of all time poem is "annabellee" by edger allan poe.
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Annabellee is a favorite of mine as well, also The Road Not Taken. Others are If by Rudyard Kipling and Remember by Christina Rossetti.

My 2 all-time faves though are As I Walked Out One Evening and Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden.


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I would have to say "Nothing Gold Can Stay -- Robert Frost" and the poem "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep."

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My favorite is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein.


Have a blessed day-

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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver = and also The Journey - same author!

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.


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Mine would have to be "I'm Nobody" by Emily Dickinson. It is an emblem of my growing up in an abusive home and feelings of loneliness that it brought.

I�m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there�s a pair of us�don�t tell!
They�d banish us, you know.
��
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

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Love After Love ~ Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


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The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and staunch he stands;
The little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.

"Now don't you go till I come," he said,
"And don't you make any noise!"
So, toddling off to his trundle bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue�
Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true!

Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
Each in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.

Eugene Field


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