Favourite Poems.
One of the suggestions made by Tommy Murray at the last gathering was that everyone should bring in a favourite poem or a piece to read, and some brought two! Myself included. Others got into the spirit of the thing and read from memory, or out of one of the books lying around. Pat Bennet read from William Shakespeare, "Fear no more the heat o' the sun", while Myra Lawlor read a piece from "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmund Rostand. Other contributions are listed below, though the names have been omitted given the hour that's in it. What would you have picked?
* On a Favourite Cat~ Thomas Gray.
* Base Details~ Siegfried Sassoon.
* The Red Wheelbarrow~ William Carlos Williams.
* The Old Woman of the Roads~ Padraic Colum.
* Let Me Die a Young Man's Death~ Roger McGough.
* My Favourite Things~ Julie Andrews.
* Ozymandias~ Percy Bysshe Shelley.
* September 1913~ W.B. Yeats.
* Funeral Blues~ W.H. Auden.
And if I had to read again? "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy.
Photo: Ye old moat Trim Castle.
3 comments:
I remember studying Ozymandias for the Junior Cert, now thats a long time ago ......
I met a traveller from an antique land...
Shelley.
nice photo!!
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