Comments | clockwork_grape: Wordsworth

clockwork_grape

Wordsworth

Sep 15, 2007 13:46

I was talking with someone about poetry today, so I thought I would share my favorite poem with you all. It is "The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth.

( The World is too Much With us )

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curvycrip September 15 2007, 19:30:48 UTC

One of my absolute favorite poems is this one from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
XXVI.

I lived with visions for my company
Instead of men and women, years ago,
And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know
A sweeter music than they played to me.
But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come---to be,
Belovèd, what they seemed. Their shining fronts,
Their songs, their splendours (better, yet the same,
As river-water hallowed into fonts),
Met in thee, and from out thee overcame
My soul with satisfaction of all wants:
Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

clockwork_grape September 15 2007, 20:19:21 UTC

That is absolutely beautiful. I love it! It is a lovely poem...

suncynic September 17 2007, 18:15:21 UTC

Russell, of course, introduced me to the shimmering beauty of The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. It's longer so I won't post more than a link (http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html), but go read it, along with the translation of the Italian from the beginning (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=419292). It is the most beautiful, aching poem I know ( ... )

clockwork_grape September 17 2007, 18:25:00 UTC

Beautiful. I wish I had time to read more... It was so great to see you yesterday! I miss you a lot. We'll talk soon.