A bit late for St. Patrick's day, but... 'Ireland, Ireland' Down thy valleys, Ireland, Ireland, Down thy valleys green and sad, Still thy spirit wanders...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 23, 1999 12:27 am
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extracts from 'The Book of Job' Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, When they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 22, 1999 1:36 am
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Guest poem sent in by Salil Murthy [We are running short of guest poems - please do send some in. You needn't do the biography and criticism - just send in the...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 21, 1999 5:48 am
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In case you missed it, there was a theme this week, which was somewhat hard to make explicit, but which should be clear in retrospect. 'Do Not Go Gentle Into...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 20, 1999 1:34 am
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extracts from 'Mercian Hymns' I King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 19, 1999 12:32 am
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Background info: The narrator is a poet reincarnated in a cockroach's body. He types by jumping on the keys of a typewriter, hence the lack of caps. Knowing...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 18, 1999 1:25 am
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'The Windhover' I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 17, 1999 12:08 am
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'First Fig' My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 16, 1999 5:30 am
22
'A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI' White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. ...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 15, 1999 11:35 pm
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Guest poem submitted by Amit Chakrabarti 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 15, 1999 6:39 am
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'Break, break, break' Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 13, 1999 11:32 pm
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'Kubla Khan ' (or, a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment) In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 13, 1999 2:31 am
18
'The Sea and the Hills' Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded -- The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 11, 1999 1:16 am
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'To Whom It May Concern' I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way So stick my legs in plaster Tell me lies about...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 10, 1999 12:35 am
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Borrowing a leaf from Thomas, I'll run a set of three sea poems this week, beginning with what is doubtless the most famous of them all ... "Sea Fever" I must...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 9, 1999 1:57 am
15
this week's theme (sort of) - poems and rock music 'Jerusalem' And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 8, 1999 1:09 am
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Guest poem sent in by Rajeev Chakravarthi 'The Poet's Testament' I give back to the earth what the earth gave, All to the furrow, none to the grave, The...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 7, 1999 7:07 am
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Following on from Ozymandias... 'On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness' The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 6, 1999 12:38 am
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It's about time I did something Japanese, so... 'Haiku' old pond..... a frog leaps in water's sound -- Matsuo Bassho translated by William J. Higginson. This...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 5, 1999 12:21 am
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'Ozymandias ' I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk,...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 4, 1999 6:48 am
10
Sorry if you get this twice - I sent it at 6 but it doesn't seem to have gotten through so I'm reforwarding it. 'Ozymandias ' I met a traveller from an antique...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 4, 1999 4:12 am
9
'Sailing to Byzantium' That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song, The...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 3, 1999 12:02 am
8
'Requiem' Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Mar 2, 1999 12:34 am
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continuing the Scottish theme... 'John Anderson My Jo' John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:22 am
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The second of our guest poems, sent in by Anustup Datta 'Bagpipe Music' It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Feb 28, 1999 12:53 am
5
'The Way Through the Woods' They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Feb 26, 1999 11:14 pm
4
'Full Fathom Five' Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Feb 25, 1999 3:02 pm
3
'The Eagle' (a Fragment) He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...
Martin Julian DeMello
mdemello@...
Feb 25, 1999 12:30 am
2
'Prologue' This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On a breakneck of rocks Tangled with chirrup...
Abraham Thomas
thomas@...
Feb 24, 1999 12:30 am
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