Can someone tell me whatthis poem is please??

[Nightshade]

Ok when I was about 13 I came a cross a ratheer soppy Ill admit book in a library anyway It was based around a poem by Dickens Doone one of them Im sure there was A 'D' in it- Then again dyslexia and all that it very well may not be. Any way the point is I'm looking for that poem and I can sort Of remeber bits of it and its begining to annoy me so Could someone help?

Right so what I remeber is that the Poem was sort of like Doone's cathch a falling star(?) and definetly involve stars because the book was called somthing like that any way it was airy fairy and 'romantic' as in the ideals not sop but ended very down earth somthing to do with baskets?

OK I know thats not much but Im good at looking and waiting So yep no hurry (It took me 2 years to track down John Betjiman's in Westminister abby- and I ve only started looking for this :D )


so thanks :thumbs_up

[Isagel]

Can the book you are talking about be the book Stardust by Neil Gaiman? ( if it is I do not think it is soppy at all. I read it a cuople of years ago and I love it. ) Stardust is a fairytale like book that uses John Donnes "Go and catch a falling star" as a framework for the story:

GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.

If this was not what you are looking for, we´ll just keep searching.

[amuse]

M.M. Kaye used this line in her book Trade Winds!

Teach me to hear mermaids singing

[Nightshade]

Yeah it may be that one only I dont think it is Doones poem never mind though