George wrote:Embarassed to admit I'm drawing a blank on most.
Is #6 "The Cremation of Dan McGrew"?
Isn't it (#6) "The
Shooting of Dan McGrew"? I forget who it's by. (I'd have to Google or is that cheating?)
devriesj wrote:George wrote:Embarassed to admit I'm drawing a blank on most.
Is #6 "The Cremation of Dan McGrew"?
Isn't it (#6) "The
Shooting of Dan McGrew"? I forget who it's by. (I'd have to Google or is that cheating?)
OK for the title, feel free to cheat, I wont tell anyone :wink:
o.k. Mischief managed:
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew is by....
Robert W. Service
That's 6 done with, not being a classical sort of person he's probably my favourite poet.
9 is Vitai Lampada by (Newbolt,) I think
dròm_et_rêve wrote:9 is Vitai Lampada by (Newbolt,) I think
Correct, also one of my favourites. Only 2 left 5 & 8.
5--Four quartets 4: Little gidding by T.S.Eliot
8--The green eye of the little yellow god by J. Milton-hayes
Thats it folks all over
Welcome to A2K carditel both answers correct.
Answers
1 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Tennyson
2 Contagion - Spike Milligan
3 Poem in October - Dylan Thomas
4 Snake - D H Lawrence
5 Little Gidding - T S Eliot
6 The Shooting of Dan Mc Grew - Robert Service
7 Mandalay - Rudyard Kipling
8 The Green Eye Of The Yellow God - J Milton Hayes
9 Vitai Lamparda - Sir Henry Newbolt
10 Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight - Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Well done, everyone!
We should write another one, perhaps.
I thought that I should resurrect Rod's idea; but, this time, I'm using last lines. Also, because I'll be gone from the net for the next six days, you can guess at as many of them as you like, even if they've been guessed before.
Here goes.
1) And hid his head amid a crowd of stars.
2) Her blacks crackle and drag.
3) But the jewel you lost was blue.
4) Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
5) What will survive of us is love.
6) To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
7) The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
8) That's why this country's going down the drain.
9) Beyond the dip of bell.
10) A taste of honey. Now I remember.
11) Our life-day long shall part no more.
12) Must pine neglected and alone.
13) Where ignorant armies clash by night.
14) Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.
15) They shorten tedious nights.
16) After the first death, there is no other.
All of the poets are well-known, if not universally. Once more, we want the name of the poet and the poem, but if you can give just one, give just one.
15. Winter nights by Thomas Campion
14 looks like Shakespeare, and knowing drom-, it is. I'm off to ponder...
Too hard for me Drom
Did a net search for 3 and got a result but thats cheating
I had to look it up, but it's sonnet 70, right?...
"That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;"
Not sure if I know any others!
Okay,...#4 looks familiar. Didn't that use to be part of your signature line,drom-? I'm afraid I don't know poet or title (without cheating, that is). My memory of poetry is very bad!
Yes, I did... I'll give the point to you, as... it seems as if I have set this test too hard.
Echo, by Christina Rossetti:
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.
Yes, that's beautiful! I am a bit of a 'poet dunce'! I'm afraid I grew up in the tv age. Although, I can easily remember song lyrics, (I've always loved musicals) their artists and other quirky 'useless' information! I haven't memorized a poem since high school. Isn't that sad? I do love to read poetry when I get the rare chance though.
Alas, honestly, I would have to Google to get the rest of the poems! I'm so embarrassed!
I too buried my face in books reading to all hours of the night! My mom would get so mad! I read mostly classic novels then. I liked poetry but more the amusing wimsical stuff like Ogden Nash or something like that.
As far as mucicals, it'd be easier (maybe) to think of a one I DIDN'T like! I grew up watching them and I performed in a few! It's funny too that we feel the same way about Sandy! Did you know that they wanted Marie Osmond for the part, but she didn't want to do the 'slutty' thing either!
