| User | Mister Fizzle | | Topic | the awe of poets | | Message | I know I have spoke on here before about the awe and speechless feeling that some poems I read leave me with. One guy who I have mentioned before, Richard Lovelace, wrote alot of poetry in the form of letters from a prison cell to his true love, Althea. You see he was captured in the depths of a civil war in the 1400’s. Anyway I found it of some regard because you know that anything you write from the confines of a prison cell is pretty damn sincere. This poem is unbelievable. Personally I have a long way to go before I write things this graceful. Its really a pretty good measure of how far you have come and how far you have to go.
Man he must have really loved that girl. I bet she was hot.
To Althea, from Prison
Richard Lovelace
When Love with unconfinéd wings
Hovers within my gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair
And fettered to her eye,
The birds that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.
When flowing cups run swiftly round,
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with roses bound,
Our hearts with loyal flames;
When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When healths and draughts go free,
Fishes, that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.
When, like committed linnets, I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sweetness, mercy, majesty,
And glories of my King;
When I shall voice aloud how good
He is, how great should be,
Enlargéd winds, that curl the flood,
Know no such liberty.
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
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| User | Learah | 2005-02-19 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Hmmm... I don’t like this. It’s too convoluted and abstract and archaic for my taste, though that was how things were done then and as fourteenth century poetry it’s certainly a good example... this guy precedes Willy S, but is on par...However I like WS, because of his plays and not just his poems.
I find Rupert Brooke’s poetry incredibly stimulating... he’s my new fave :) |
| User | on1eday.co.uk | 2005-01-29 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | yes i see this.
nice.
but i dont.
it smuch like cars. we can appreciate the beauty of a mark one jaguar, but the fact remains that they are not made anymore, and things move on and it is important to try to break out of the bubble design phenomenon that is ruining the models that are being brought out today.
i guess what i am trying to say is that is it good to admire but not to copy. the new x type jags are rank, and they tried the history repeating thing. many poems here have the 15th century ’feel’ and the shakepeare tones, and they generally do not work.
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| User | Juliets_dagger | 2005-01-19 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Beautiful piece. I’m interested in this poet. Where can I view some of Richard Lovelace’s other works? Much love to ya Fizz. :-) |
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