General Chat

Bravo Joy! Allie x ps Are they from memory?

I can still recite 'The Darkling Thrush' but can't remember the author!!

I remember from John Masefields 'Cargoes' Dirty British coaster with a salt caked smoke stack butting through the channel in the mad March days with a cargo of Tyne coal, road rails ,pig lead, firewood, ironware and cheap tin trays still remember it after 40 odd years Pat

Sheila - I think it's Thomas Hardy!

We weren't made to learn poetry at school but my mother loved poetry and passed her love onto me. I have a childhood copy of 'The Book of a Thousand Poems' which is well thumbed. My favourite childhood recitable poems are Matilda by Hilaire Belloc and The Dandelions (no author).

WW1 poets, the wonderful Irish poet, Saemus Heany, The ancient mariner, Shakespeare, Byron and off course the wonderful Wordsworth whose haunting ground I walked round today!!! Cazxxxxxx

I got this far: Hiawatha a host of golden daffodils I must go down to the sea again to the lonely sea and sky ... cadet roussell has troi gros chien then had to search for If and for sonnet 18. I went to the Globe Theatre a few months ago. I'd love to see a play there, but doubt that I ever shall.

oh and T S Eliott - Skimbleshanks the railway cat

Daffodils, by William Wordsworth Sea Fever, by John Masefield Old Ned.........and The Traveller........both by Walter de la Mare Snatches of many others, but I've only really retained in full the ones I liked. And, not from school, but from my father......... I remember,I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. Reg

Viv, you've made me remember the most important poetry book in the world! ''When we were very young'' by A.A. Milne The King asked the Queen and the Queen asked the Dairy Maid ''Could we have some butter for the Royal slice of bread.....?'' etc I had sixpence, a bright shiney sixpence and I took my sixpence to the market fair I wanted a rabbit, a little brown rabbit And I looked for a rabbit most evrywhere there..... So many fantastic poems - such a big in fluence on my life LOL! Our teacher read them to us in infant school and I'm pleased to say that my daughter (age 31) bought herself a copy recently ! Allie x

I'd forgotten that I know ''The Traveller'' by heart as well! Any others? Allie

shall we walk a little faster? said the ? to the ? there's a ? right behind me and it's treading on my tail :-)

......there's a porpoise close behind us.... Can't think what the others are though! Allie x

One of my favourites - 'The Bells of Heaven' - Ralph Hodgson

What IS the matter with Mary Jane She's crying with all her might and mane She won't eat her dinner Rice pudding again What IS the matter with Mary Jane?

said the whiting to the snail ?

... of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings

The Lobster Quadrille 'Will you walk a little faster?' Said the whiting to the snail 'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail' See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle - will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? 'You can really have no notion how delightful it will be 'When you take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!' But the snail replied' Too far, too far' and gave a laugh askance- Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not could not, would not join the dance Would not, could not, would not could not, could not join the dance. 'What matters it how far we go?' his scaly friend replied 'There is another shore, you know, upon the other side The further off from England the nearer is to France Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but won't you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? Lewis Carroll

The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a little poem called 'I remember I remember' but I can't remember who it was by!! : ) Carol

That's it! Thank you. will you won't you will you won't you ............