Hi Aaron, and other Thread-treaders,
A good time, for me, to think about this consciously again. My list is made of poems that have had such a powerful impact and influence, that are so twisted into my soul, that I doubt I can really
think without them.
D.H. Lawrence.
The Ship of Death
William Blake.
Auguries of Innocence
T.S. Eliot. The Four Quartets
Syliva Plath.
The Moon and the Yew Tree
W.H. Auden.
The Fall of Rome
Cavafy.
Ithaka
Robin Robertson.
At Roane Head
Philip Larkin.
Here
ee cummings.
i carry your heart
Keats.
Lamia and
Lamia Part 2
Donne.
Song
Wordsworth.
Intimations Ode
George Mackay Brown.
Hamnavoe
Yeats.
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Tennyson.
The Lady of Shallot
Christina Rosetti.
Goblin Market
Thomas Hardy.
The Self Un-seeing
Coleridge.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Andrew Marvell.
Thoughts in a Garden
Dylan Thomas. Under Milk Wood
Banjo Paterson.
Clancy of the Overflow
Walter de la Mare.
The Listeners
Shakespeare. Macbeth, opening scene:
ACT I SCENE I A desert place.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches]
First Witch When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. 5
First Witch Where the place?
Second Witch Upon the heath.
Third Witch There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch I come, graymalkin!
Second Witch Paddock calls. 10
Third Witch Anon!
ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
[Exeunt]