Today's poet

[MachGirl]

No ... thankyou :0) sweet poem Mossdog !

[Harry H Howgill]

At a Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy

Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.

How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry
With the torn troubled form I know as thine,
That profile, placid as a brow divine,
With continents of moil and misery?

And can immense Mortality but throw
So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme
Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies?

Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show,
Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,
Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?

[Derby Tup]

Some great verse posted recently

[Derby Tup]

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths,
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B.Yeats

[Harry H Howgill]

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths,
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B.Yeats

Aha! That is the first time I've read the whole "tread on my dreams" verse. Thanks for that one DT.

[MachGirl]

Whoah Harry , that was definitely wham bam have some John Donne ! ( my favourite of the metaphysical poets )
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's day is my favorite of the the two !

[Harry H Howgill]

Whoah Harry , that was definitely wham bam have some John Donne ! ( my favourite of the metaphysical poets )
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's day is my favorite of the the two !

I preferred it to the Thomas Hardy. His was a bit poncey!

I never knew it was St Lucy's day today. This poetry stuff can be educational!

[MachGirl]

Sorry everyone , Im new to this forum and by the time I have worked out how to reply , someone else has added more poems ........ and it becomes confusing for me ( ha ) hence the " whoah Harry "

[Harry H Howgill]

Sorry everyone , Im new to this forum and by the time I have worked out how to reply , someone else has added more poems ........ and it becomes confusing for me ( ha ) hence the " whoah Harry "

Don't worry. All will become clear I'm sure.

[Alf]

Cheers for those suggestions ALf and Freckle, I eventually came up with something - not quite as eloquent as your suggestions, but my daughter liked it!
Machgirl, I could well have gone for your one just above this post, 'Destiny' by Edwin Arnold. Very apt!

Did you write it yourself PB ?