Come on guys...Its not that bad!

Posted by Barney on August 12, 2000

In Reply to: Come on guys...Its not that bad! posted by Bob 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.

I rank it below doggerel. I could write better stuff myself - I'm sure I could. I've never written a line in my life - yet

• What Do I Know!!--I Had To Look Up Doggerel Bruce Kahl 08/12/00
  • What Do I Know!!--I Had To Look Up Doggerel Barney 08/15/00