Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Mudlark
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 12:30 AM

Wow, indeed! What a great poem!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:59 PM

Wow!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:08 PM

You remembered more than me Matthew, all I knew was the first line and the flexing like a lens bit...had completely forgotten about the woods crashing through darkness, although that always made me think of a wild animal. Nice one.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 06:55 PM

Try here Wind, by Ted Hughes

This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet

Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as
The coal-house door. Once I looked up --
Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope,

The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace,
At any second to bang and vanish with a flap;
The wind flung a magpie away and a black-
Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The house

Rang like some fine green goblet in the note
That any second would shatter it. Now deep
In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip
Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought,

Or each other. We watch the fire blazing,
And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on,
Seeing the window tremble to come in,
Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons.

        -- Ted Hughes

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 06:54 PM

www.poemhunter.com/p/m/ poem.asp?poet=6616&poem=29464 - 23k

or google

Wind - Ted Hughes - Poem by

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 06:47 PM

Looks like 'milk monitor' is right, and I'd half rememered a line in Fernhill about the owls bearing the farm away at night.
As I'm not sure how much I can quote here are the first two verses only:

Wind by Ted Hughes

This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet

Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 06:11 PM

Dylan Thomas surely?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:56 PM

'Wind'    by Ted Hughes.....possibly?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:48 PM

thought it might have been

Finisterre
by Ian Telfer

but its not quite right will keep thinking

Subject: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 04:32 PM

I showed a friend of mine around mudcat today, he was impressed, tonight he phoned me with one line from a poem!
"Can you find the rest of it he asked". "I'm sure someone on mudcat can" I said. HELP!

All I have is      "the house was out to sea all night"
With you help I can send him the whole poem before he gets back from the pub. I'm now going to search as well.

Regards skipy