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Position:Home>Poetry> What's your favorite poem and could you give me the author too?Question: What's your favorite poem and could you give me the author too!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Fairies, William Allingham Ode to the North-East Wind, Charles Kingsley Love in the Valley, George Meredith Song, Christina Georgina Rossetti The Raven, Edgar Allen PoeWww@QuestionHome@Com [[I have a long list, but I'll post this one!. ]] Invictus by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul!. In the fell clutch of Circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud!. Under the bludgeonings of Chance My head is bloody, but unbowed!. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid!. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Tiger Tiger Burning Bright by William Blake!.!.!.!.!. Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry!? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes!? On what wings dare he aspire!? What the hand dare seize the fire!? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart!? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet!? What the hammer!? What the chain!? In what furnace was thy brain!? What the anvil!? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp!? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see!? Did He who made the lamb make thee!? Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry!? - William Blake (1757-1827)Www@QuestionHome@Com A really tough question,but Procession I Hanging Day by the Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka persisted in the train you set off!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |