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Buzz Light-Ale · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: Not my own, but.......

.....if I like another work more, I simply can't think of it........

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

-- William Butler Yeats
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wildgarlic · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

This is my all time favourite verse - thank you!
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Forget-me-Not · Neepster Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Insch

Hi,

My Favourite is from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Short and sweet I know but when your daughter has Autism, this poem blows you away.

FMN
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Forget-me-Not · Neepster Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Insch

My 9yo adores Tartary by Walter de la Mare, she can recite it and drew a beautiful picture of it that's stored away safely as her art on her bedroom walls is replaced most weeks.

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Maria · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:05 am Post subject:

Tis lovely Buzz - and a fav of mine too.

On the subject of favorites - here's another - especially when I think of those nearest and dearest...

The ways of Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men stive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Forget-me-Not · Neepster Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Insch

I love than one too it's beautiful.

FMN
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Maria · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:48 am Post subject:

I love how things work out. Was thinking about what my all time favorite ever poem was, while mooching around past posts, and found this posted on Local Links. Sass THANK YOU for posting this.

Sass, I too had this poster on my wall for years...don't know what happened to it....but feel another crafty project coming on.

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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