[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

I think I gave you all the clues I can.

I'm sure I read it in high school. A short poem.

Not Keats. This seemed lighter. A Cavalier poet?

Maybe I dreamed it.

dammit

i was hoping for some clues on foot and rhythm and maybe some turns of phrase or imagery to help pin down

the subject matter sounded vaguely preraphaelite to me-- you know, old myths and legends and what not. some sort of lancelot shit.

so i though rossetti and took a cursory look but didn't look like it.

i've never read the cavaliers. anyway im now resorting to brute force---google searches, etc. pathetic!

if it was a dream you should write it. poems that come from dreams are the best. just say no to visitors.

[demonrail666]

The description's too vague to say for sure but it sounds something from Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

[Severian]

I don't know much about poetry, but I was thinking Keats as well. But it's not Keats, so way am I saying anything?

Anyway, I would need way more information to even Google this, but of the pre-20th century poems I know, I wonder...

Could it be "Porphyria's Lover?"

[Rob Instigator]

there once was a man from Nantucket?????

[Severian]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

The description's too vague to say for sure but it sounds something from Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

But that's a gargantuan freaking cycle of Arthurian legend! It's like 20 poems. Which one do you think it might be specifically? I remember the one about the jealousy of Geraint. That one has some traveling and some hemming and hawing and fear of death and whatnot, but it's not a perfect fit by any means.

Goddammit this is infuriating.

[!@#$%!]

i did check for lancelot and elaine but that wasn't quite it

she dies and he ain't coming

and this morning he said short poem

aghh

wish he was more helpful-- i hate these fucking mysteries

eh, who am i kidding, they're highly entertaining

[evollove]

I'm really not trying to fuck with anyone.

I have a friend who gets very anxious whenever I don't return a call/text right away. She assumes I've died.

This brought up a vague memory of a poem I read a long time ago. I tried searching through books, then google, then asked here.

It's no big deal. No one panic. Enjoy your day.

[!@#$%!]

noooooooo! don't take our toys awayyyyy!!!

[evollove]

FOUND IT!

I'm an idiot.

Strange fits of passion have I known. Wordsworth.


My horse moved on; hoof after hoof
He raised, and never stopp’d:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropp’d.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a lover’s head!
‘O mercy!’ to myself I cried,
‘If Lucy should be dead!’

[evollove]

Keats was really close. I'll split the non-existent prize.

[!@#$%!]

ahhhhhh... satisfaction!

it's great to close those open loops and it's great fun trying

we should make like, a game

ha ha ha ha

[Severian]

Originally Posted by evollove

Keats was really close. I'll split the non-existent prize.

Between whom?

I totally said before we knew Keats was close that I thought of Keats. So... y'know... for your consideration and whatnot.

Bah, I'm borderline poetry illiterate, so whatever. Except with the classless Beat hearhens

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

ahhhhhh... satisfaction!

it's great to close those open loops and it's great fun trying

we should make like, a game

ha ha ha ha

I was going to say, if we all need more distractions (which I sure as hell do), this could be something we obsessively flip out over all the time!

But would it be 20-questions style, or more of this incidental business of someone trying to remember something and having next to no information about what it is? Eh?

[!@#$%!]

20 questions nah, that's a goofy game

guess the poem--that's it

speaking of "close", and keats, my scattershot was so near, i was scanning coleridge last evening, and of course no luck

ps- because of the unwanted visitor who interrupted the dreamed poem (kubla khan)

(im crazy i know)

[evollove]

Easy peasy:

Falconer

Rough beast

Bethlehem

Go!

[Rob Instigator]

"god I hate poetry." - The Dead MIlkmen

[!@#$%!]

lolyeats

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

Easy peasy:

Falconer

Rough beast

Bethlehem

Go!

what's that widening gyre again

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

"god I hate poetry." - The Dead MIlkmen

religioso y filisteo

[Severian]

Originally Posted by evollove

Easy peasy:

Falconer

Rough beast

Bethlehem

Go!

That's the motherfuckin' second coming.

Er... what is "The Second Coming?"