Done and to do

[larryhammer]

There -- 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.