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Tuesday, February 03, 2004

 
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so yeah, about that whole poem a day thing: i'm actually doing it. i have, in fact, been reading at least one poem a day, and i am even in sync with the actual book. i just haven't been posting them here. for the sake of completeness, though, and to preach the gospel of poetry, i feel compelled to get back to that, so....

january 19: ben jonson, from "the triumph of charis" ("o so white, o so soft, o so sweet is she!")
january 20: william shakespeare, from love's labour's lost, act v, scene ii
january 21: wendy cope, "giving up smoking" ("people who have never been addicted to nicotine don't understand what an intense love poem it is.")
january 22: william blake, "the divine image"
january 23: william butler yeats, "an irish airman forsees his death"
january 24: rosemary tonks, "story of a hotel room"
january 25: robert burns, "my love is like a red red rose"
january 26: bernard o'dowd, "australia"
january 27: lewis carroll, "jabberwocky" ("all mimsy were the borogoves")
january 28: william butler yeats, "sailing to byzantium" ("consume my heart away; sick with desire/and fastened to a dying animal/it knows not what it is")
january 29: margaret fuller, "sistrum"
january 30: edwin arlington richardson, "richard cory" ("and he glittered when he walked")
january 31: william butler yeats, "the song of wandering aengus" ("the silver apples of the moon,/the golden apples of the sun.")
february 1: sir john suckling, "why so pale and wan?"
february 2: john keats, "song" ("there's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't")