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To: Poet who wrote (1294)7/24/2001 2:57:21 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 1857
 
I will be careful with my literary observations....LOL!

I thought I might break some ice by naming several of my favorite poems:

Pied Beauty- Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Canonization- John Donne

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- T.S. Eliot

Fern Hill- Dylan Thomas

Sunday Morning- Wallace Stevens



To: Poet who wrote (1294)7/24/2001 3:42:53 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1857
 
Pied Beauty
by: Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted |&| pieced -- fold, fallow, |&| plough;
And {'a}ll trades, their gear |&| tackle |&| trim.
All things counter, original, sp{'a}re, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckl{`e}d, (who knows how?)
With sw{'i}ft, sl{'o}w; sweet, s{'o}ur; ad{'a}zzle, d{'i}m;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is p{'a}st change:
Pr{'a}ise h{'i}m.