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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 1018 Views
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester? Camilla - 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM 831 Views
Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM 357 Views
Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM 333 Views
And amazingly explicit. *NM* Legolas - 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM 353 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 720 Views
Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM 682 Views
My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker. Legolas - 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM 1112 Views
Baudelaire? Camilla - 23/03/2010 08:42:42 PM 766 Views
What languages do you speak? Tom - 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM 761 Views
Some Spanish and German Rebekah - 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM 783 Views
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Re: Very tedious poetry. Danae al'Thor - 24/03/2010 12:27:04 AM 798 Views
This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who The Shrike - 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM 836 Views
Heine is very lyrical, though. Tom - 24/03/2010 06:59:58 PM 723 Views
In their original tongues... Larry - 23/03/2010 09:52:32 PM 826 Views
Anything Byron gets my vote, Don Juan in particular. *NM* RandAllThor - 23/03/2010 10:32:32 PM 329 Views
Emily Dickinson? *NM* Camilla - 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM 346 Views
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Ah, the certainty of youth! Larry - 25/03/2010 08:02:32 AM 788 Views
Keats MalkierKnight - 24/03/2010 04:41:38 AM 796 Views
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it is a good one Camilla - 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM 777 Views
I detest cats. I am a total dog person. *NM* The Shrike - 24/03/2010 10:19:26 PM 339 Views
heh. for some reason I always thought it'd be the opposite LadyLorraine - 25/03/2010 12:10:55 PM 735 Views
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Re: Poetry: care to recommend me some? Aeryn - 25/03/2010 03:29:57 AM 933 Views
Unsurprisingly, I like simple poetry. nossy - 25/03/2010 03:52:11 AM 759 Views
e e cummings and Poe are two of my favorites *NM* damookster - 26/03/2010 04:13:13 AM 334 Views
Symborska. Spriteling - 26/03/2010 12:24:50 PM 945 Views
I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked snoopcester - 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM 833 Views
Thanks, all, for your recommendations. Rebekah - 27/03/2010 10:57:31 AM 750 Views
coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM* moondog - 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM 371 Views
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