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Umm...here's one I prepared earlier -
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery
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(from Poetry Archives)
I found the link at What She Said, which I just happened upon at 1 in the morning.
5 comments:
It said I was William Wordsworth, which is just Wrong.
cathi: ah..."I wandered lonely as a cloud.."
You're not a nature-lover?
Nature is wonderful in its time and place, but it doesn't move me to write poems. I'm an emotional girl, me
I know this entire poem off by heart, Dad made me learn it when we moved to Spain and he was worried we'd lose our English language skills.
cathi: fair enough. So which poet should you be - not John Cooper Clarke, I suppose.
editter: the Wordsworth? I first came across it at my library job, to show someone how to find the poem that goes with the first line. And it just stuck in my brain.
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