Our Literary Heritage - 101 ( Archived) (4)

Dec 9, 2005 8:10 PM CST Our Literary Heritage - 101
LiteraryLass
LiteraryLassLiteraryLassMinneapolis, Minnesota USA3 Threads 25 Posts
There so much poetry--thankfully in the public domain--that makes up our cultural and literary heritage. Here's one that everyone should know. It's by R.L.Stevenson and dates from the 19th century. It used to be popular as an epitaph:

Requiem

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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Dec 9, 2005 8:21 PM CST Our Literary Heritage - 101
plarkin
plarkinplarkinMinneapolis, Minnesota USA69 Threads 514 Posts
Great idea LL. Here's a poem by Byron that most people know a line or two from:

We'll go no more a-roving

SO, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
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Dec 10, 2005 1:09 AM CST Our Literary Heritage - 101
RainbowSlider
RainbowSliderRainbowSliderYellville, USA171 Threads 7,174 Posts
Our Second World
by A-lepht
There's a place up in the sky
filled with people we love.
It's up where angels fly,
it's the heavens up above.

The home of our second world
where we will all meet again.
So we must remember that
our lives never really end.

So when you feel sad and blue
and you think you lost all hope,
your loved one's somewhere new,
and there's loved ones here to help you cope.
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Dec 10, 2005 11:19 AM CST Our Literary Heritage - 101
marulaki
marulakimarulakiMoenchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany4 Threads 60 Posts
There is a lot more, especially novels, on the project gutenberg to download. And with a voice synthetizer program, the computer is reading it out to me.
D.H.Lawrence, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad and many more.
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