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16233 Posts in 790 Topics- by 64 Members - Latest Member: elaine

February 08, 2012, 01:52:05 PM

The Mystic Castle So many books, so little time. Admiration for the written word.


Poems that I love

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Poems that I love  ( on: February 10, 2009, 05:16:56 PM)
 
Didn't see a poetry section to post my new favorite poem in....so I thought I'd start the thread.  Just ran across this poet yesterday.  Not sure why he wasn't cover in English class when I was school...he is many decades dead...and yet he shows such wisdom:

On Money

"Give money me, take friendship who so list,
For friends are gone come once adversity,
When money yet remaineth safe in chest,
That quickly can thee bring from misery.
Fair faces show friends when riches do abound;
Come time of proof, farewell, they must away;
Believe me well, they are not to be found
If God but send thee once a lowering day.
Gold never starts aside, but in distress,
Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness."

Barnabe Googe




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Re: Poems that I love  ( Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 08:32:33 PM)
 
Interesting you started this thread Adair.  My daughter's been bombarding me with poems for weeks, her English class is studying popular songs and finding their origin through poems.  Here's one I just discovered and loved.  Written by Thomas Dekker, it's a poem/lullaby written over 200 years ago, I think.  The poem later went on to be adapted and used by none other than Paul McCartney, for the Beatles Sgt.  Pepper album:





Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes
   
 
  Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.

Thomas Dekker 
 

Here's the Beatles version:

Lyrics:
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

The teacher started out by   decoding  Guns N Roses' hit Sweet Child of Mine, a song that I suggested Marissa do.  She thought that GnR was too improper.  Was shocked when the teacher researched the song and used it as an example.  He then went on to inform Marissa how cool her mother was!





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Re: Poems that I love  ( Reply #2 on: February 10, 2009, 10:32:21 PM)
 
Stan Rice's (deceased husband of author Anne Rice) poem Thunder and Rain. The last lines of the poem just move me so much. It's exquisitely imaged.

And the rain was brain colored, and the thunder sounds like something remembering something.




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Re: Poems that I love  ( Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 11:09:30 PM)
 
Quote from: Woodstock on February 10, 2009, 08:32:33 PM
Interesting you started this thread Adair.  My daughter's been bombarding me with poems for weeks, her English class is studying popular songs and finding their origin through poems.  Here's one I just discovered and loved.  Written by Thomas Dekker, it's a poem/lullaby written over 200 years ago, I think.  The poem later went on to be adapted and used by none other than Paul McCartney, for the Beatles Sgt.  Pepper album:





Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes
   
 
  Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.

Thomas Dekker 
 

Here's the Beatles version:

Lyrics:
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

The teacher started out by   decoding  Guns N Roses' hit Sweet Child of Mine, a song that I suggested Marissa do.  She thought that GnR was too improper.  Was shocked when the teacher researched the song and used it as an example.  He then went on to inform Marissa how cool her mother was!


Love the poem and I remember the song.  There are so many modern songs that come from poetry..I applaud her teacher for doing this type of study with the kids and for recognizing that you are a very cool lady.  (always nice when a teenager hears that about her mom).  Just off hand I can think of a few songs that came from poems like No Man is an Island by John Donne...song by Simon and Garfunkle; Turn, Turn came from the Bible (to everything there is a season...turn turn turn) and I think that Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the roof was based on the same passage from the Bible.

If I really put my mind to it, I could probably come up with a dozen good songs that were based on a poem or a psalm.




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Re: Poems that I love  ( Reply #4 on: February 10, 2009, 11:10:34 PM)
 
Quote from: Persephone on February 10, 2009, 10:32:21 PM
Stan Rice's (deceased husband of author Anne Rice) poem Thunder and Rain. The last lines of the poem just move me so much. It's exquisitely imaged.

And the rain was brain colored, and the thunder sounds like something remembering something.

I didn't realize that Anne Rice was married to a poet.  That last line is beautiful.  I'll have to look up the poem and read it.




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Re: Poems that I love  ( Reply #5 on: February 11, 2009, 12:03:58 PM)
 
Quote from: Adair on February 10, 2009, 11:10:34 PM
I didn't realize that Anne Rice was married to a poet.  That last line is beautiful.  I'll have to look up the poem and read it.

They are a family of many talents, he wrote poetry and painted, Anne of course, is a fabulous author and their son Christopher is also an author.  Smiley

I was looking for a place to read the poem, but I couldn't find one. I did however, find a Youtube video of Stan reading it. It's nine minutes long, lol. He really had an interesting way with words and imagery.  In that respect, he and Anne are very much alike. Here's the link: Thunder and Rain. That last line just makes the whole poem for me.




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