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RE: What's your favorite poem? - 10/21/2008 9:06:35 PM

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William Shakespeare's Sonnets 57 & 58.

Being your slave, what should I do but tend

Upon the hours and times of your desire?

I have no precious time at all to spend,

Nor services to do, till you require.

Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,

Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,

Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,

When you have bid your servant once adieu;

Nor dare I question with my jealous thought

Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,

But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought

Save where you are how happy you make those.

So true a fool is love that in your will,

though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

That god forbid that made me first your slave

I should in thought control your times of pleasure,

Or at your hand th’account of hours to crave,

Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure!

O, let me suffer, being at your beck,

Th’imprisoned absence of your liberty,

And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check

Without accusing you of injury.

Be where you list; your chartee is so strong

That you yourself may privilege your time

To what you will; to you it doth belong

Your self to pardon of self-doing crime.

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;

Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

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RE: What's your favorite poem? - 10/21/2008 9:11:35 PM

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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.

I will spare you all the longest post ever on this site and decline to copy it here.

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RE: What's your favorite poem? - 10/21/2008 9:38:51 PM

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Linnea.. thank you for posting your daughters poetry.. beautiful.

The Highwayman is one of my favorites as well.. (and yes, Loreena did a fabulous job with it!)

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RE: What's your favorite poem? - 10/21/2008 9:49:33 PM

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i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

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