Weblog of Quotes and Rants

I shall go
Up and down,
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed.
And the softness of my body will be guarded
From embrace
By each button hook and lace

- Amy Lowell (Patterns)

And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

- Edgar Allen Poe (Annabel Lee)

And moving thro' a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.

- Lord Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The Lady of Shallot)

I like to see this as a metaphor for the internet. Perhaps not quite what Tennyson intended :)

There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

- Sara Teasdale

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me

- T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)