Done and to do
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larryhammerThere -- a revised, printed draft of the YA novel code-named Second Thoughts. Now there's a handful of notes and polishing and cutting everything that isn't part of the story as finally concluded, all of which best handled on paper. If the trimmings aren't at least 5000 words, I'll look for more, for I've run a wee long -- 65k. But, it's a draft.
So in celebration, a game of twenty lines. However, instead of movies or novels, as others, I'll do lines of poetry. To even the field, all were found on my top nightstand shelf -- IOW, common anthology pieces. Well, anthology pieces, anyway. Your task is identify the poem (ETA: Google is, of course, cheating); I'll post the answers with credits in another post.
ETA bold to unidentified lines:
"And all the best of dark and bright"
"Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang"
"Beauty, vision, midnight dies"
"Because many of them are thirteen stories high"
"Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam"
"For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command"
"Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five"
"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion"
"I have seen them gentle, tame, and meke"
"Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars"
"Now -- for a breath I tarry"
"That twenty centuries of stony sleep"
"The City is of Night, but not of Sleep"
"Things invisible to see"
"This is the parting that they had"
"When the stars threw down their spears"
"Where ignorant armies clash by night"
"World brood with warm breast and with ah! bright wings"
"Wrapped up in a five-pound note"
"You were silly like us; your gift survived it all"
---L.
So in celebration, a game of twenty lines. However, instead of movies or novels, as others, I'll do lines of poetry. To even the field, all were found on my top nightstand shelf -- IOW, common anthology pieces. Well, anthology pieces, anyway. Your task is identify the poem (ETA: Google is, of course, cheating); I'll post the answers with credits in another post.
ETA bold to unidentified lines:
"And all the best of dark and bright"
"Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang"
"Beauty, vision, midnight dies"
"Because many of them are thirteen stories high"
"Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam"
"For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command"
"Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five"
"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion"
"I have seen them gentle, tame, and meke"
"Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars"
"Now -- for a breath I tarry"
"That twenty centuries of stony sleep"
"The City is of Night, but not of Sleep"
"Things invisible to see"
"This is the parting that they had"
"When the stars threw down their spears"
"Where ignorant armies clash by night"
"World brood with warm breast and with ah! bright wings"
"Wrapped up in a five-pound note"
"You were silly like us; your gift survived it all"
---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 01:48 am (UTC)back to grading...
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Date: 17 January 2005 01:58 am (UTC)She Walks In Beauty
Date: 17 January 2005 02:01 am (UTC)My Byron's a little rusty, but I always liked this one...
Met in her aspect and her eyes
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
Re: She Walks In Beauty
Date: 17 January 2005 03:48 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:18 am (UTC)"Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five" Wife of Bath's Prologue, Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
"Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang" Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare
Anon.
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Date: 17 January 2005 03:50 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 05:42 am (UTC)I think this one is W. Auden's Vision (I could have the title wrong). "Beauty, vision, midnight dies"
I do not know why I know that this is Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometimes did me seke. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meke"
Oh and I knew The Owl and the Pussycat too but Janni beat me to it!
Anon.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:36 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:55 am (UTC)"That twenty centuries of stony sleep"
"... were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." Yeat's "The Second Coming"
"Things invisible to see"
I don't suppose you'd accept "the Donne that also talks about mandrake roots"?
"When the stars threw down their spears"
"Tiger, Tiger," Blake
"Where ignorant armies clash by night"
"Dover Beach," Matthew Arnold
"Wrapped up in a five-pound note"
"The Owl and the Pussycat," Edward Lear
"You were silly like us; your gift survived it all"
"On the Death of W.B. Yeats," Auden ("Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry ...")
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Date: 17 January 2005 03:59 am (UTC)So far, we're 9 for 20.
---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:49 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 January 2005 03:20 am (UTC)Congrats on finishing, though.
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Date: 17 January 2005 06:05 am (UTC)Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:37 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 January 2005 07:14 pm (UTC)And that's without the luxury of a shared night table. :)
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Date: 17 January 2005 07:14 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 19 January 2005 02:25 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 20 January 2005 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:39 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 19 January 2005 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 January 2005 06:29 am (UTC)A Song by John Donne.
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Date: 17 January 2005 02:41 pm (UTC)We've now got 12 of the 20 identified, with a couple I thought among the easiest still to go.
---L.
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Date: 17 January 2005 07:16 pm (UTC)But it was Janni's hint about the Mandrake root that nailed it.
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Date: 17 January 2005 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 17 January 2005 08:19 pm (UTC)This is "The City of Endless Night," I think, but I'm still blanking on the author.
WAG: Browning?
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Date: 17 January 2005 09:07 pm (UTC)---L.