Position:Home>Poetry> URGENT. I need an English poem to recite for an important competition? ?

I'd say 'Crossing the Bar' by Alfred Lord Tennyson!. I'm also in 11th, but I'm in AP English!. I just love expressing feelings with grace and serenity!. Anywho, that poem has deep and powerful undertones!. I had to write a report in 10th grade on this poet!. It was 11 flipping pages long!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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This is from a Spanish author translated to English:

[quote] This is the place, Heavens, where I select and choose to bewail the misfortune into which you yourselves have plunged me!. This is the spot where the moisture from my eyes will swell the waters of this little stream, and my deep and incessant sighs perpetually stir the leaves of these mountain trees, in testimony and sign of the grief my tortured heart endures!. On you, whoever you may be, rustic deities who have your abode in this inhospitable spot, hear the plaints of this ill-starred lover, whom long absence and some fancied jealousy have brought to mourn among these rugged wastes, and to complain of the cruel nature of that ungrateful beauty, the sum and perfection of all human loveliness! O you, wood-nymphs and dryads, whose custom it is to haunt the mountain thickets, may the swift and sensual satyrs, who love you in vain, never disturb your sweet quiet, that you may aid me to lament my ill fortune, or at least not grow weary of hearing it! O Dulcinea del Toboso, day of my night, glory of my grief, pole-star of my journeys, star of my fate, may Heaven grant you all that you pray for in full measure!. Consider now the place and the condition to which your absence has brought me, and grant me in return such reward as my fidelity deserves! O solitary trees, which henceforth must be the companions of my solitude, give me some sign, by the gentle stirring of your branches, that my presence does not offend you! And you, my squire, pleasing companion of my prosperous and adverse fortunes, impress on your memory what you will see me do here, so that you may tell and recite it to the sole cause of it all! [/quote]Www@QuestionHome@Com

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A Prayer by Sara Teasdale

Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;

Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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what about the raven by edgar allen poe!?
or!.!. journey, by enda st!. vincent millay!? (or anything else by her too!)
or check out some dorothy parker poems, they're witty/cynical but very impressive and awesome!.

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