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Poetry : I hope that I have got it right, this time....LOL
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From: MSN Nicknamebobsvoiceofwisdom1  (Original Message)Sent: 5/15/2008 11:12 AM
 
 
 

Poetry...

A friend of mine showed me this poem by W. H. Auden and I think it's so beautiful I just wanted to share it.......



The More Loving One (W. H. Auden)


Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.



How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.



Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn,

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.



Were all stars to disappear or die,

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.

my favourite line is:

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me...

TO THE STAR
by Mihai Eminescu


So far it is athwart the blue
To where yon star appears,
That for its light to reach our view
Has needed thousand years.


Maybe that ages gone it shed
Its glow, then languished in the skies,
Yet only now its rays have sped
Their journey to our eyes.


The icon of the star that died
Slowly the vault ascended;
Time was ere it could first be spied,
We see now what is ended.


So is it when our love's aspire
Is hid beneath night's bowl,
The gleam of its extinguished fire
Enkindles yet our soul.



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From: MSN NicknameNamedCandyGirlSent: 5/15/2008 12:26 PM
Thank you for sharing that with us, Bob. I really enjoyed reading them.
 
Candy Girl