Still more to do

[larryhammer]

Updated twenty lines. Unidentified in bold:

"And all the best of dark and bright" ("She Walks in Beauty," Byron, madwriter)

"Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang" (Sonnet 73, Shakespere, shelly_rae)

"Beauty, vision, midnight dies" (something by Auden)

"Because many of them are thirteen stories high"

"Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam" ("Ode to a Nightingale," Keats, shelly_rae)

"For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command" ("Jubilate Agno," Smart, enrobso)

"Housbondes at chirche dore I have had five" (The Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath's Prologue, Chaucer, shelly_rae)

"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" ("Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae," Dowson, enrobso)

"I have seen them gentle, tame, and meke" ("They flee from me, that sometime did me seek," Wyatt, shelly_rae)

"Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars" (Atalanta in Calydon, Swinburne, shelly_rae)

"Now -- for a breath I tarry" ("From far, from eve and morning," from A Shropshire Lad, Housman, shelly_rae)

"That twenty centuries of stony sleep" ("The Second Coming," Yeats, janni)

"The City is of Night, but not of Sleep"

"Things invisible to see" ("Song: Go and catch a falling star," Donne, janni and enrobso)

"This is the parting that they had"

"When the stars threw down their spears" ("The Tyger," Blake, janni)

"Where ignorant armies clash by night" ("Dover Beach," Arnold, janni)

"World brood with warm breast and with ah! bright wings" ("God's Grandeur," Hopkins, nineweaving)

"Wrapped up in a five-pound note" ("The Owl and the Pussycat," Lear, janni)

"You were silly like us; your gift survived it all" ("In Memory of W.B. Yeats," Auden, janni)

Any more?

Thanks for the congrats. Am trying to keep my mind off The Thing with overdue revisions to a story, but my ends are feeling a little loose.

---L.

Comments

Re: I remember now!

[janni.livejournal.com]

Ah--I bet it is Hopkins.

Who else would write a line like "ah! Bright wings"?

Re: I remember now!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

"God's Grandeur," I think.

Nine

Re: I remember now!

[larryhammer]

Ding!

---L.