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    Loved Elizabeth Bishop's poem Her poem is like a breath of fresh air with her expert use of words.

    "Fear" - Phyllis Hand; Fear vs Curiosity... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4450750/fear-vs-curiosity/

    * Sorry I missed this earlier, wife in hospital again (Wednesday: helo life-flight/recovering slowly at hospital) and I'm a bit scattered. Bad fall after getting out of her car (blackout?), 20 feet from where she was going to on the property; trauma, possible concussion at the time; firemen/EMT's; helicopter flight: accidently gave her a microdose of a drug she's allergic to (fentanyl); trauma unit: body severely convulsive/extreme pain everywhere/neck collar; another misstep with a drug no one knew she was allergic to early Sunday morning (psychotic episode)... endless CT scans... not able to get MRI yet. Coherent now... hates the food; not a happy camper.
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    7-8-2015

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    Sorry to read all this. I wish your wife a quick recovery! Maybe you write a list with all the drugs you know she is allergic to, as these emergency people are not the ones that usually attend your wife. That she complains about the hospital food is a very good sign!

    "Gentle Spring! - in sunshine clad," Spring by William Henry Giles Kingston

    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n/spring-21834
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Cheerful poem

    "Had tuneful Maro seen, and Homer old," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CLIII. Se Virgilio ed Omero avessin visto. / The Most Famous Poets of Antiquity Would Have Sung Her only, Had They Seen Her.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...a/sonnet-cliii

    Brought my wife home late last night after 5-days ... much pain still, she will stay at her sister's for a while (next door) and receive some out-care.
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    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Congrats for the good news! As she is staying next door, you can visit her easily. She probably will be up in no time.

    Petrarca singing about Laura


    "I've been in love for long" In Love For Long by Edwin Muir

    famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edwin_muir/poems/2716
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Thanx!

    Used this link... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-love-for-long/

    Ambivalent about the poem... maybe the rhyme and meter?

    "Jerusalem! Jerusalem!" - Alfred Tennyson; The Fall Of Jerusalem... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-ten...l-of-jerusalem
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    Cannot tell! A love poem that isn´t personal, more generic? Maybe it´s that.

    "Jerusalem< Jerusalem!" Still so up to date!

    "King Leir once ruled in this land". King Leir And His Three Daughters by George Wharton Edwards
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...aughters-15217
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Found this on pages 177 - 180 Master Thesis: "Journeys and Places: A Study of the Poetry of Edwin Muir"
    And it is love that empowers him, in the celebratory poem "In
    Love for Long" (159-160) to come to an absolute awareness of life and
    to find the hidden, unifying ground of existence. In this poem Muir
    captures and makes formal the magic of an experience he had during the
    War years while sitting in the countryside and gazing at the scene
    around him. "Suddenly and without reason," he recalls, he felt a
    deep and abiding fondness for the hills, the cottages, the clouds,
    the soft, subdued light, and for the very ground he sat upon and he
    realized that he loved these things "for themselves. n 56 As he seeks
    to give concrete form to his experience of an irreducible and ir55Ibid., ;. 120.
    56cited by Butter, in Edwin Muir: Man and Poet, p. 206, from
    the B.B.C. "Chapbook," 3 Sept. 1952. As Muir recalls in a B.B.C.
    broadcast: "I was up at S\vanston in the Pentlands one Saturday morning during the War. It was in late summer; a dull, cloudy, windless
    day, quite warm. I was sitting in the grass, looking at the thatched
    cottages and the hills, when I realised that I was fond of them,
    suddenly and without reason, and for themselves, not because the
    cottages were quaint or the hills romantic. I had an unmistakable
    warm feeling for the ground I lvas sitting on, as if I were in love
    with the earth itself, and the clouds, and the soft subdued light. I
    had felt these things before, but that afternoon they seemed to
    crystallise, and the poem came out of them."
    resistible love, a love grounded in the soil of this world> Muir seeks
    to create a poetry of a higher order, a poetry which tells the untellable and gives shape to the intangible. He seeks to grasp, in the
    verbal space of the poem, that mysterious force which grasped him,
    that force from lvhich "there's no escape~" and that force which
    challenges his poetic powers of expression:
    I've been in love for long
    With what I cannot tell ·
    And will contrive a song
    For the intangible
    That has no mould or shape,
    From which there's no escape.
    (1-6)
    As he trys to penetrate the enigma of "what" it is he loves in these
    simple trimeter lines with their rich mixture.of simple and Latinate
    diction, the speaker-poet poses a riddle. Giving a series of clues to
    the identity of the mysterious thing he loves, he invites the reader
    to become involved in the process of discovery. For though what he
    loves is "not even a name," yet it is "all constancy" ;(7·-8). It is
    simultaneously as fleeting and airy as a "breath" and as "still., and
    stable as "the established hill" (11-12). Whether "Tried or untried,"
    it is "the same" and it is an essential part of his being for it "cannot part from him" (9-10). What he loves resides in paradox and contradiction for he loves the very stuff of ''being" itself:
    It is not any thing,
    And yet all being is;
    Being, being, being,
    Its burden and its bliss.
    How can I ever prove
    What it is I love?
    (13-18)
    ·179
    What he loves cannot be grasped through the reason nor can it be
    localized or confined by the intellect--i.e., he cannot "prove" it.
    What he loves can only be grasped in a poetic song, a song of utter
    simplicity and child-like intensity.
    It is his love for being that enables him to find a domain of
    freedom within time's prison, a world of good within the framework of
    the world's evils, an overarch~g joy within the realm of life's
    sorrows. For th~ugh his ''happy happy love" for being is beseiged with
    the "crying sorrows" of death (19-20), though time's "vice" crushes
    it "beneath and above/Between to-days and morrows" (21-22), yet he
    retains his love for being. His love is "A little paradise/Held in
    the world's vice" (23..:24):
    And there it is content
    And careless as a child,
    And in imprisonment
    Flourishes sweet and wild;
    In wrong, beyond wrong,
    All the world's day l~ng.
    This love a moment known
    For what I do not know
    And in a moment gone
    Is like the happy doe
    That keeps its perfect laws
    Between the tiger's paws
    And vindicates its cause.
    (25..:37)·
    Though the ''happy" moment of love passes, in its integral time-space
    unit the speaker-poet recovers the world of innocence,· joy, and fulfillment. Though vulnerable and doomed by time, his love, like the
    ''happy doe" found in the tiger's grasp, "vindicates its cause" by the
    very fact of its existence. For his love creates its own dynamic
    world of perfected order and value, its own fullness of presence, its
    --
    180.
    own open moment of time. Freedom and joy emerge within the boundaries
    of time. Human life can be infinitely expanded within the boundless
    moment of love.
    ... https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcon...ext=luc_theses

    re: King Leir And His Three Daughters - enjoyed the sad tale told in the poem

    re: The Fall Of Jerusalem - Too true.

    "Look at me, I'm a mah-ve-lous cat." - elysabeth faslund; Mah-Ve-Lous Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mah-ve-lous-cat-humor/
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    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Great find, tailor. I chose this poem because I liked it´s more universal note. Poems of the personal kind are abounding.

    re Mah-Ve-Lous Cat...: AAAAIIII!

    "NOW winter nights enlarge" Winter Nights by Thomas Campion
    https://englishverse.com/poems/winter_nights
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Enjoyed "Some measures comely tread, / Some knotted riddles tell, / Some poems smoothly read."

    "Oh, I am very weary," - Anne Brontë; Appeal... https://poemanalysis.com/anne-bronte/appeal/
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    Appeal, a very sad poem. Thanks for the analysis. Just one more comment. Some biographies of the Brontë sisters suggest that Anne might have fallen in love with a young curate, William Weightman, who worked with her father. But there is little evidence of that. Some poets and the protagonist of Agnes Grey falling in love and marrying a curate in the novel.

    "Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass,"Destiny by Emma Lazarus
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../destiny-23044
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Found an informative Master's thesis re: Anne & her writing that I perused quickly by searching the document using "marr" - "Anne Brontë: A Feminist Voice in the Novel by Paloma Ríos Prieto... http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv/bi...Paloma_TFM.pdf Very informative.

    re: Destiny - the last line (one word) turns the entire poem upon its head

    "Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door" - Jonathan Swift; The Dog And Thief... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nd-thief-36081
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    re: Thanks for the thesis, tailor, will take a look at it.

    re: I fully agree about the Bonaparte Poem.

    re: Enjoyed Swift´s critical poem.

    "Radiant notes"Cactus Seed by Lola Ridge
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...tus-seed-29128
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Enjoyed this surprising poem

    "Settle for nothing" - Abu Tayyib Al; [Poem]... https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comm...b_almutanabbi/
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    "Settle for nothing", a lofty poem!

    "This harbour was made by art and force." The Harbour by Eavan Boland
    http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...and/poems/1203
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Enjoyed the poem and found another literary reference: https://www.dunlaoghairetown.ie/jame...aoghaire-town/

    "Upon the left shore of the Tyrrhene sea," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LI. Del mar Tirreno alla sinistra riva. / The Fall... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...onnet-li-28460

    * corrected link
    Last edited by tailor STATELY; 02-21-2023 at 02:34 PM. Reason: wrong link
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    7-8-2015

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