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Robert Service Robert Frost Edgar Allen Poe Rudyard Kipling and a bunch of songwriters living and dying in 3/4 time
“A promise made is a debt unpaid”. Robert Service Words to live by if you’re a man of your word and handshake deals.
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Ulysses BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,— Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Wallace McCrae who wrote Reincarnation! Slim you aint changed very much!!
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You're asking the wrong crowd my friend, unless you know of any racist/church hating poets. Kipling was mentioned in the OP.
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As far as my favorites: Kipling Homer Virgil Dante
Maybe not in that order. Every man should read Homer and Virgil.
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I have clinched and closed with the naked north I have learned to defy and defend Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out Yet the wild must win in the end
Robert Service From a Yukon Jack ad
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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A Boy Named Sue! Cash made it famous!
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Inspired by another thread the question is "Who are your favorite poets"?
For me it would be: Robert Service Kipling Poe Little Johnny.
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A Boy Named Sue! Cash made it famous! Christopher Robin, Christopher Schmobin A bear has got to eat (Haiku to Pooh Bear)
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Inspired by another thread the question is "Who are your favorite poets"?
For me it would be: Robert Service Kipling Poe I have the collected works of Robert Service on my nightstand. My father gave it to me 40 years ago. I actually read a little to the grandkids last month. Poe and Kipling are also on my list, plus Robert Frost.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
In high school we all had to do a reading of a favorite in our literature class. I did Paul Revere. Near all of us went through pages of boring material. The kid that did the above also got an A even though he did not have to read his material. The only true genius in our class.
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He had a home a few miles from me in the Florida Keys. Don't know if he was a full time resident or not, but his front yard was always good for a chuckle or three. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/grinch-speeding-drivers-onions-tickets-florida-keys/
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake Robert Service Baxter Black
When you see the southern cross for the first time You understand now why you came this way 'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so small But it's as big as the promise The promise of a comin' day So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a-dyin' And my love is an anchor tied to you Tied with a silver chain I have my ship and all her flags are a-flyin' She is all that I have left, and music is her name
Stills, Curtis, and Curtis
There are others, but my memory isn't as sharp as it once was.
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