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<blockquote data-quote="LRHWAL" data-source="post: 113562" data-attributes="member: 5418"><p><strong>Re: Favorite Poems (let\'s collect some)</strong></p><p></p><p>Ditto on Frost, my favourite favourite - particulalry "The Road Not Taken"</p><p></p><p>Another favourite:</p><p></p><p>William Henry Davies 1871-1940</p><p></p><p>Leisure</p><p></p><p>What is this life if, full of care</p><p>We have no time to stand and stare.</p><p></p><p>No time to stand beneath the boughs</p><p>And stare as long as sheep or cows.</p><p></p><p>No time to see, when woods we pass,</p><p>Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.</p><p></p><p>No time to see, in broad daylight,</p><p>Streams full of stars, like skies at night.</p><p></p><p>No time to turn at Beauty's glance,</p><p>And watch her feet, how they can dance.</p><p></p><p>No time to wait till her mouth can</p><p>Enrich that smile her eyes began.</p><p></p><p>A poor life this if, full of care,</p><p>We have no time to stand and stare. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And whilst I find the idea of Coleridge having related the vision of an opium induced dream a bit off putting, his Kubla Kahn (or a Vision in a Dream) has always been a favourite too. Although some of the somewhat colourful interpretations can spoil it a bit.</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/nisetar/kahn.html" target="_blank">Kubla Kahn</a> </p><p></p><p>Rudyard Kipling's "If" would struggle to make the list, though superb. At High School we were made to write it out hundreds of times as punishment (instead of lines).</p><p></p><p>WL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRHWAL, post: 113562, member: 5418"] [b]Re: Favorite Poems (let\'s collect some)[/b] Ditto on Frost, my favourite favourite - particulalry "The Road Not Taken" Another favourite: William Henry Davies 1871-1940 Leisure What is this life if, full of care We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. And whilst I find the idea of Coleridge having related the vision of an opium induced dream a bit off putting, his Kubla Kahn (or a Vision in a Dream) has always been a favourite too. Although some of the somewhat colourful interpretations can spoil it a bit. [url="http://www.geocities.com/nisetar/kahn.html"]Kubla Kahn[/url] Rudyard Kipling's "If" would struggle to make the list, though superb. At High School we were made to write it out hundreds of times as punishment (instead of lines). WL [/QUOTE]
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