Favorite poem or quote...

[mjbonoan]

do you have a favorite poem or quote? Which one is it?

My favorite poem is this one:


What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply;
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands a lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet know its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

[MidwestStamper]

I've never seen this poem before, but it is lovely!

I posted a card not too long ago that has one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost:

[inkinupstamps]

...lately I've really enjoyed making and coloring and viewing cards with birds on them. This poem, by Gerard Manley Hopkins has always spoke to me and I think maybe I'll make a bird card and use this as my inside sentiment.

The Windhover
by Gerard Manley Hopkins


I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

[ellie]

I love what my dh said to my son when he was his best man..."May today be the day you love each other the least".
Also my ds used this as the best man for his friend: May the best of your past be the worst of your future.

[Sherry]

Here is my favorite:

Friendship is the comfort,
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but pouring all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them
keep what is worth keeping
and with the breath of kindness
blow the rest away

~George Elliot

[MyRnAbS]

Jo: Don't be such a beatle! I could never love anyone as I love my sisters!! ~~ Little Women (1994)

[MyRnAbS]

I also have this other one, and I'm dedicating it to my older sister Mary Jayne, we may not be sister's by blood, but we are by love!!!

There is no Friend like a Sister
There's no better friend than a sister-
There's no one more loyal an ture....
and even when sisters are different....
their kindness comes shinning through!

And when some encouragement's needed....
A sister will always be there....
to listen...
to laugh....
or to lean on....
to comfort, or simply to care.

~~ Mary Engelbreit

Mary keep you cool, your Rowdy will pull through!!! Please talk to me!! I can't hear you if you don't speak to me!!!

[toao]

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY...(Lord Byron)

SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!


Mary