The Poetry Excerpt Game (rules inside):

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Post lines or excerpts to poems only as a response to this original post. Don't post a new line/excerpt in the same post where you give an answer or respond to someone else. This way you can glance at the thread to see which ones have been answered and which ones have not.

2. When someone answers your query, when you acknowledge them, post in response to their answer so it stays in the same part of the thread.

I'll start with the first line which will be reply number one.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. "nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands"

[Inchworm]

7. "my blood approves and kisses are a better fate"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

[Blue-Jay]

9. That's my favorite poem.

It's a wonderful allegory that illustrates the temporary nature of "important" people. (Especially despots)

"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Heh I used to always say "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" when entering my initials after

getting a video game high score. Great poem, though, Shelley's "Ozymandias".

:toast:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

[BlueIris]

16. Not sure if I'm supposed to post, "I have heard the mermaids singing each to each" or

"The Love Song of J. Alread Prufrock," but now you have both.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. My goal was to have the name of the poem as the answer, bravo!

[Dr. Strange]

4. In the holy solipsism of the young

[Inchworm]

8. "All wholsome food is caught without a net or a trap"

[Dr. Strange]

24. Hmmm, not the same author...

But the author of the line I posted was very interested in the poetry of the author of the line you posted...

Curious...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

[BlueIris]

17. "All mimsy were the borogoves,"

"And the mome raths outgrabe."

I really hate "The Jabberwocky."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Aw come on! How can you hate on Jabberwocky? It's got MOME RATHS fer Chrissakes!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity."

[Inchworm]

10. (but)“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness..

and love.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. I think you are posting additional questions as answers to the questions?

[Inchworm]

15. Forgive me, I know not what I do.

I was adding lines to the first which were exerpts along the idea of the it.

:shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. No worries it's all in fun and enjoyment of poetry.

[janx]

13. "The dead man thinks he is alive when he hears his bones rattle."

(Marvin Bell)

[Swede]

14. Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'

The Raven

[BlueIris]

19. "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,"

"Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge..."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. He was a gentleman from head to crown/Clean favored, and imperially slim.

[Inchworm]

23. Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd,

so I said.

:shrug: