101 Famous Poems | 
Do you ever get a poem in your head the way you get a song in your head? Tonight it‘s “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and oddly enough, it‘s because today‘s #LOTRchapteraday mentioned Gil-galad. Stay with me here. 😆 Whenever Gil-galad is mentioned, I think of that scrap of Tolkien‘s poetry:
“Gil-galad was an Elven king
Of him the harpers sadly sing
The last whose realm was fair and free
Between the mountains and the sea…”
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BarbaraJean The two poems have the same rhyme scheme & meter, the beginning of Renascence has that reference to mountains and a bay and there‘s the mountains & the sea in the Gil-galad poem—so one led me to the other. I memorized whole chunks of Renascence when I was in junior high (because a character in a book I was reading memorized it & I wanted to as well!). Those lines have been running through my head all night and I‘m not mad about it. 8mo
BarbaraJean “I would I were alive again / To kiss the fingers of the rain / To drink into my eyes the shine / Of every slanting silver line…” (edited) 8mo
LiteraryinLawrence I relate to having snippets of memorized poems sometimes take hold. 💗 8mo
Lunakay Every spring I remember a certain poem by Hugo von Hofmannstahl and it gets stuck until I look up the parts that I keep forgetting. It's a seasonal thing😆 8mo
JazzFeathers That is so amazing, And l love the snippets you posted. 8mo
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