A Book from Childhood Revisited.
By Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
United States
December 9, 2016 5:07pm CST
For research on another project, I’ve been trying to locate an old poem, the title and author of which I do not recall. I thought I remember reading it in an old book I had as a kid, so I bought an old copy through Amazon Market Place. I remember loving this book as a kid. Flipping though it when I got it was a lot of fun.
I read again William Blake’s:
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Or a group of odd and (really) amusing epitaphs, like this one for a dentist:
Stranger, approach this spot with gravity:
John Brown is filling his last cavity.
There are also story poems, like “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, made into a song by Loreena McKennitt
And still of winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatter and clang in the dark inn- yard.
And he taps with his whip on the shutter, but all is locked and barred:
he whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
Oh, well. It’s a nice trip down memory lane. Is the book familiar to anyone else?
As for the poem that I bought the book for? I’m no closer to finding it.
Image is my own
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The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt from the album The Book of Secrets The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleo...
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
9 Dec 16
I remember the tiger poem and kind of remember the highwayman. Do you remember anything from the poem you were looking for? I often remember a few words of a song or poem and put them into a search engine. I usually find what I'm looking for.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
10 Dec 16
@msiduri I tried to look it up from that description and could not find anything. I did find a lot of old poems but not yours. oh well..
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
10 Dec 16
@dragon54u try Louis Untermeyer, the editor's name. It's only available as hardback
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
10 Dec 16
@puddleglum Thanks.I'll check those out as just to eliminate them, though I don't think they're the one I'm looking for. The author could be the always prolific anonymous. You've given me some more places to check, though. Thank you.
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@arthurchappell (45003)
• Preston, England
16 Dec 16
can you recall lines from the poem you are looking for? hope ou find it
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@marguicha (219877)
• Chile
9 Dec 16
I just found an old poetry book with poems that my mother recited for us. It was full of memories!
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@Letranknight2015 (51721)
• Philippines
9 Dec 16
This is first time to have read this, and thank you for sharing it to me.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Dec 16
No, not familiar to me at all.
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Dec 16
Sorry, I've never heard of it.
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