''and I've only read like shakespeer and other guy i dunno even the know the name of ''
... Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen. (I'm just kidding, don't take offense.)
Eliot, Yeats and Coleridge are favourites of mine.
As for epic poems, The Faerie Queene is awesome:
''What franticke fit (quoth he) hath thus distraught
Thee, foolish man, so rash a doome to give?
What justice ever other judgement taught,
But he should die, who merites not to live?
None else to death this man despayreing drive,
But his owne guilty mind deserving death.
is then unjust to each his due to give?
Or let him die, that loatheth living breath?
Or let him die at ease, that liveth here uneath?
Who travels by the wearie wandring way,
To come unto his wished home in haste,
And meets a flood, that doth his passage stay,
Is not great grace to helpe him over past,
Or free his feet, that in the myre stick fast?
Most envious man, that grives at neighbours good,
And fond, that joyest in the woe thou hast,
Why wilt not let him passe, that long hath stood
Upon the banke, yet wilt thy self not passe the flood?
He there does now enjoy eternall rest,
And happie ease, which thou doest want and crave,
And further from it daily wanderest.
What if some little paine the passage have,
That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.''
...I think I got all the spellings right. That's the only part I have memorized. People who know entire books by heart sicken me... with the sour taste of inadequacy. I don't know anything bigger than 150 lines.
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In a haze
A stormy haze
I’ll be around
I’ll be loving you
Always
Always
Here I am
And I’ll take my time
Here I am
And I’ll wait in line
Always
Always...
