Come on guys...Its not that bad!

Posted by Bob on August 10, 2000

In Reply to: Come on guys...Its not that bad! posted by Bruce Kahl on August 10, 2000

: It's Longfellow, for cryin' out loud!! Jeesh!!
: ( uh oh--a Minced oath? )

: Longfellow had a gift for writing simple and romantic stories. He lacked the depth of some of his contemporaries but his stuff is very entertaining. How about "The Village Blacksmith."

: This and the Hollow Men by Eliot--"We are the hollow men, heads filled with straw..." was my intro to poetry:

: At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
: A fisherman stood aghast,
: To see the form of a maiden fair,
: Lashed close to a drifting mast.

: The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
: The salt tears in her eyes;
: And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
: On the billows fall and rise.

: Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
: In the midnight and the snow!
: Christ save us all from a death like this,
: On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Man's best friend is his doggerel.

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