05 Jul 2019, 7:35 pm
Same question.
It's not obscure or erudite - indeed perhaps his best known poem - but MCMXIV, whose subject matter should be immediately obvious, always moves me to tears:
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark;
And the shut shops, the bleached
Established names on the sunblinds,
The farthings and sovereigns,
And dark-clothed children at play
Called after kings and queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
Wide open all day;
And the countryside not caring:
The place-names all hazed over
With flowering grasses, and fields
Shadowing Domesday lines
Under wheat’s restless silence;
The differently-dressed servants
With tiny rooms in huge houses,
The dust behind limousines;
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word – the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
It's a dirge for the Britain of old - when things still worked, when life had a purpose and when there were still values.
05 Jul 2019, 7:37 pm
05 Jul 2019, 7:37 pm
05 Jul 2019, 7:38 pm
Wowwww. ^ 
That was really moving. Thanks 
05 Jul 2019, 7:39 pm
05 Jul 2019, 7:43 pm
Same question.
It's not obscure or erudite - indeed perhaps his best known poem - but MCMXIV, whose subject matter should be immediately obvious, always moves me to tears:
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark;
And the shut shops, the bleached
Established names on the sunblinds,
The farthings and sovereigns,
And dark-clothed children at play
Called after kings and queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
Wide open all day;
And the countryside not caring:
The place-names all hazed over
With flowering grasses, and fields
Shadowing Domesday lines
Under wheat’s restless silence;
The differently-dressed servants
With tiny rooms in huge houses,
The dust behind limousines;
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word – the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
It's a dirge for the Britain of old - when things still worked, when life had a purpose and when there were still values.
It reminds me, thematically, of R.L. Stevenson songs I used to sing.
05 Jul 2019, 7:51 pm
That was really moving. Thanks What power the written word can have!
05 Jul 2019, 7:52 pm
05 Jul 2019, 7:56 pm
05 Jul 2019, 8:00 pm
06 Jul 2019, 6:48 am
06 Jul 2019, 9:38 am
06 Jul 2019, 9:47 am
06 Jul 2019, 9:57 am
TBH, whenever I try to get near a girl into a relationship, they seem to reject me, saying, "I don't want to deal with it right now". There were girls who WERE interested in me, but they're like a dime-a-dozen, and care more about swinging rather than true love. Whenever I don't hear their returned feelings for me, I tend to get worried, and then disappointed.
Same question.
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06 Jul 2019, 10:00 am
06 Jul 2019, 10:00 am
I've never encountered it, but I'd say with respect and dignity. I've only ever met one woman I'd definitely want to "ask out", though, and she's gone now
Red wine.
What's the weather like, where you are?
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