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08 Oct 04 - 04:32 PM (#1292588) Subject: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: GUEST,skipy 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 |
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08 Oct 04 - 04:48 PM (#1292601) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Megan L thought it might have been Finisterre by Ian Telfer but its not quite right will keep thinking |
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08 Oct 04 - 04:56 PM (#1292611) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: GUEST,milk monitor 'Wind' by Ted Hughes.....possibly? |
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08 Oct 04 - 06:11 PM (#1292656) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Matthew Edwards Dylan Thomas surely? |
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08 Oct 04 - 06:47 PM (#1292675) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Matthew Edwards 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. |
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08 Oct 04 - 06:54 PM (#1292680) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Peace www.poemhunter.com/p/m/ poem.asp?poet=6616&poem=29464 - 23k or google Wind - Ted Hughes - Poem by |
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08 Oct 04 - 06:55 PM (#1292681) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: GUEST 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 |
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08 Oct 04 - 07:08 PM (#1292690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: GUEST,milk monitor 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. |
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08 Oct 04 - 07:59 PM (#1292729) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Charley Noble Wow! Charley Noble |
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09 Oct 04 - 12:30 AM (#1292881) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: all I have is one line from a poem From: Mudlark Wow, indeed! What a great poem! |