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Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy Send a noteboard - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM
And any poems my grandmother, uncle and father read to us when the family was all together.

The House with Nobody in It, Kilmer
Barbara Frietchie, Whittier
The Cremation of Sam McGee, Service
Little Boy Blue, Field
Invictus, Henley

<3 my Treasury of the Familiar.
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Poetry: care to recommend me some? Rebekah - 23/03/2010 06:57:49 PM 865 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 674 Views
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And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 297 Views
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That has to be the best (if, admittedly, only) poem on premature ejaculation I've ever read. Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:52:12 PM 568 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 526 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 951 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 618 Views
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Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 629 Views
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Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 649 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 677 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 568 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 672 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 264 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 285 Views
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Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 763 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 638 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 273 Views
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Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 605 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 308 Views
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