FabSwingers.com forum: Poem’s or saying’s

By *asisfan25 OP Man
40 weeks ago

Essex

Hey, has anyone got any favorite sayings or poems ?

I’ll put some lines from my two favorite poems.

Walt Whitman

O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done.

The ship has every weather, the price we have. The sought is won.

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While eyes following the steady keel, the vessel were grim and daring.

But O heart! Heart! Heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!

Though I've belted you and flayed you,

By the livin' Gawd that made you,

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

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By *asisfan25 OP Man
40 weeks ago

Essex

The other one is Rudyard Kipling

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By *ovingSussexLifeMan
40 weeks ago

West Sussex

I must go down to the sea again

To the lonely sea and the sky;

I left my shoes and socks there I wonder if they're dry?

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

philip larkin poem about parents

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

I like that one by Walt Wiitman, first heard it in Dead Poets society (as read by Robin Williams.)

my three other favourite are

Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle', and I am from near his 'lovely, ugly town'

and for very personal reasons 'Invictus' by William Earnest Henley

and then Shakespears Sonnett 116

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By *asisfan25 OP Man
40 weeks ago

Essex

"I like that one by Walt Wiitman, first heard it in Dead Poets society (as read by Robin Williams.)

my three other favourite are

Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle', and I am from near his 'lovely, ugly town'

and for very personal reasons 'Invictus' by William Earnest Henley

and then Shakespears Sonnett 116"
that’s where I heard it one of my favourite films

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

ditto

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"philip larkin poem about parents"

This be the verse?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

Dust if Snow Robert Frost is one of mine

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

Dust *of* Snow

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

also love this.

“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun”

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

(from Cymbeline)

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,

Nor the furious winter’s rages;

Thou thy worldly task hast done,

Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:

Golden lads and girls all must,

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o’ the great;

Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;

Care no more to clothe and eat;

To thee the reed is as the oak:

The scepter, learning, physic, must

All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning flash,

Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone;

Fear not slander, censure rash;

Thou hast finished joy and moan:

All lovers young, all lovers must

Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!

Nor no witchcraft charm thee!

Ghost unlaid forbear thee!

Nothing ill come near thee!

Quiet consummation have;

And renownèd be thy grave!

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'

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40 weeks ago

"^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'"

It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.

I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.

*mel = honey (in Welsh)

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'

It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.

I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.

*mel = honey (in Welsh)"

Thank you I will find it on YouTube later

The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
40 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

Here I sit broken hearted

Paid 20p and only farted

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'

It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.

I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.

*mel = honey (in Welsh)

Thank you I will find it on YouTube later

The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar

*Origin

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"Here I sit broken hearted

Paid 20p and only farted"

Heart breaking yet succinct

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By *uke OzadeMan
40 weeks ago

Ho Chi Minge City

I gave up wanking this morning

I never thought that I could

But I’m feeling much better already

Now that I’m off it for good

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By *layfullsamMan
40 weeks ago

Solihull

I think, therefore I’m Sam

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
40 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

"Here I sit broken hearted

Paid 20p and only farted

Heart breaking yet succinct "

It's a childhood evergreen

But we paid a penny in the original.

Bloody inflation

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
40 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

"I think, therefore I’m Sam "

I'm pink therefore I'm spam

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By *layfullsamMan
40 weeks ago

Solihull

Men are from mars, women have no penis

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"Here I sit broken hearted

Paid 20p and only farted

Heart breaking yet succinct

It's a childhood evergreen

But we paid a penny in the original.

Bloody inflation"

One of my favourites was

I chased a bug around a tree

I'll have his blood he knows I will.

Oh how we giggled to be getting away with saying bugger and bloody

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
40 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

oooooo makes me think of polished it behind the door.....

loved it.

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By *ackformore100Man
40 weeks ago

Tin town

"Men are from mars, women have no penis "

That must be an old one

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By *ora the explorerWoman
40 weeks ago

Paradise, Herts

"Men are from mars, women have no penis

That must be an old one "

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
40 weeks ago

Hastings

I think this is apt for the site.

Never make love at the garden gate.

Because love is blind but the neighbours ant.

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By *yrman57Man
40 weeks ago

Ayr

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

- I took the one less traveled by

Robert Frost

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By *ackformore100Man
40 weeks ago

Tin town

Nice thread op. I don't know alot of poetry so it's nice to read and learn a bit...

This one for some reason stirs emotions.. Rather bleak and troubled..by John Clare.

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;

My friends forsake me like a memory lost:

I am the self-consumer of my woes—

They rise and vanish in oblivious host,

Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes

And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,

Into the living sea of waking dreams,

Where there is neither sense of life or joys,

But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;

Even the dearest that I loved the best

Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod

A place where woman never smiled or wept

There to abide with my Creator, God,

And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,

Untroubling and untroubled where I lie

The grass below—above the vaulted sky

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By *ackformore100Man
40 weeks ago

Tin town

And then the no man is an island...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends`s or of thine own were. Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

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By *adgerMan
40 weeks ago

york

"I must go down to the sea again

To the lonely sea and the sky;

I left my shoes and socks there I wonder if they're dry?"

The brilliant spike Milligan

Ode to sorrento (3rd class)

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By *asisfan25 OP Man
40 weeks ago

Essex

“If you could know the empty ache of loneliness …”

Ruth Muskrat Bronson

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'

It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.

I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.

*mel = honey (in Welsh)

Thank you I will find it on YouTube later

The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar

*Origin

I'm no scholar also. I just love reading, poetry and the English language. (My beautiful, dear lady English teacher lit a flame some 35 years ago). She made an old, damp, old prefabricated classroom on a wet, wintry Tuesday Morning the happiest, safest most beautiful ever place to be. I never wanted her lessons to end.

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By *rsMistyPeaksWoman
40 weeks ago

Essex

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are s l a v e s.

Lord Byron

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"^^ that's lovely

Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts

'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'

It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.

I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.

*mel = honey (in Welsh)

Thank you I will find it on YouTube later

The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar

*Origin

I remember one of my teachers reading Paradise Lost to us in the accent of the time (or what she assumed it was) but none of them were inspirational I'm afraid.

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By *he_turtle_movesMan
40 weeks ago

york

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,

Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;

Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,

Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

One of my favourite Wendy Cooper's

Two Cures For Love

1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter

2. The easy way: get to know him better.

In the interests of fairness him could well be replaced with her.

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

“Trying to ride two horses with one arse”

Essentially trying and failing to do two things at once.

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By *icentiousCouple
40 weeks ago

Up on them there hills

shel Silversteins’ The bagpipes who didn’t say no, kind of reminds me of fab.

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By *rill PhilMan
40 weeks ago

Crediton

"No man is an island,

Entire of itself.

Each is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thine own

Or of thine friend's were.

Each man's death diminishes me,

For I am involved in mankind.

Therefore, send not to know

For whom the bell tolls,

It tolls for thee." John Donne

A bit cliche perhaps? But, I love that poem.

I also love Edgar Allen Poe's 'Eleanor' and 'The Raven'

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
40 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

I've told this one before but so many request it still ......

Inky Pinky Ponky

Daddy bought a donkey

Donkey died

Daddy Cried

Inky Pinky Ponky

Thank you

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"philip larkin poem about parents

This be the verse?"

Yes.

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

“Everything Before The Word But Is Horse-Sh*t”

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By *tylebender03Man
40 weeks ago

Manchester

Look the part, be the part motherfucker

The thing about the old days is, them the old days

If you come at the king you best not miss

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By *idnight RamblerMan
40 weeks ago

Pershore

"Dead" said the doctor

"Dead" said the nurse

"Dead" said the lady with the alligator purse.

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By *ingerTwistWoman
40 weeks ago

Edinburgh

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.

Not all thy piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line,

Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

Omar Khayyam.

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity... Indeed, that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant — oh, f**k it."

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By *orksRockerMan
40 weeks ago

Bradford

" Answer

That you are here, that life exists and identity.

That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse."

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By *ife NinjaMan
40 weeks ago

Dunfermline

Here I sit, broken hearted. I'm late for the bus, and I've only farted.

Toilet wall, circa 1988

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"You see, people may or may not be mildly threatened by your anger, your hatred, your pride. But, love the wrong way, and you will find yourself in great jeopardy."

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By *icecouple561Couple
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40 weeks ago

East Sussex

"Here I sit, broken hearted. I'm late for the bus, and I've only farted.

Toilet wall, circa 1988

That reminds me

Toilet wall, Brighton station circa 1974

'my mother made me a homosexual '

' if I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?'

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By *ife NinjaMan
40 weeks ago

Dunfermline

"Here I sit, broken hearted. I'm late for the bus, and I've only farted.

Toilet wall, circa 1988

That reminds me

Toilet wall, Brighton station circa 1974

'my mother made me a homosexual '

' if I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?'"

Our canteen wall was full of stuff like that.......must be an inspirational setting

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By *ackformore100Man
40 weeks ago

Tin town

Some good work on here op. Well done

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"I gave up wanking this morning

I never thought that I could

But I’m feeling much better already

Now that I’m off it for good

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40 weeks ago

"Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower."

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By *ake_or_deathMan
40 weeks ago

Manchester

As you mentioned Whitman;

' Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)'

(Song of Myself, 51)

Also;

'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'

Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho!

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
40 weeks ago

Torquay

On top of old smokey all covered in poo I felt something squelchy underneath my shoe

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

Every song written is poetry

Take me to the limit one more time..Eagles

All by myself..Eric Carmen

From a distance..Bette Middler

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By *ake_or_deathMan
40 weeks ago

Manchester

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
40 weeks ago

Torquay

Favourite poems in no particular order

Etiquette W S Gilbert

Sea Fever John Masefield

Ozymandias Percy Shelley

If Rudyard Kipling

I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth

Stork in Jerez Laurie Lee

Not very imaginative but I like em

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By (user no longer on site)
40 weeks ago

"In my loneliness, and perhaps because of it, I've learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love."

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By *andyman666Man
40 weeks ago

North Walsham

If at first you don't succeed, stick it up his f'''''' arse

HLI bayonet drill

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By *nnCeeWoman
40 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

It's a bit of a daft one, but I've known it for years:

There is a star

Shining afar

Beckoning you, my friend

Life is a climb

Most of the time

But you'll get there, in the end

Whenever you fall

And falls will come

Whatever the trouble or pain

Pick yourself up

Dust yourself off

And start all over again.

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By *aidbacklover2021Man
40 weeks ago

perth

There was a young man from Dunducket

Whose cock was so long he could suck it

He said with a grin as he came on his chin

If my ear was a cunt I could fuck it

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
40 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:

And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught

The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.

Omar Khayyam

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
40 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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By *ORDERMANMan
39 weeks ago

wrexham

The life that I have..

Google it...

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