One Hundred and One Famous Poems

I have three copies of this poetry collection—thanks to my mother. I used to pore over her copy (top right) for hours when I was in elementary school/jr. high. She eventually got me a copy of my own (the one at the bottom of the be-ribboned book stack). She later bought me another copy (top left), forgetting she‘d already gotten me one! My mom passed away two years ago, and now I have all three—it‘s difficult to part with any! #SundayFunday

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LeahBergen That‘s lovely! 🥰 1w

Leftcoastzen I used to have the paperback years ago, wonder what happened to it ? I don‘t purge very often. 1w

BookmarkTavern That is so sweet! What a lovely thing to remember your mother by. Thank you for sharing! 1w

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BarbaraJean

One Hundred and One Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook

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. 9mo

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) 9mo

LiteraryinLawrence I relate to having snippets of memorized poems sometimes take hold. 💗 9mo

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😆 9mo

JazzFeathers That is so amazing, And l love the snippets you posted. 9mo

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BarbaraJean

101 Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook

I always used to steal my mom‘s copy of this book of #famous poems... so she finally bought me my own copy. I later used it in this book stack, which was my ring bearer “pillow” at my wedding. I can‘t bring myself to disassemble it!
#readingresolutions

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MrBook #NiceStack! That's gorgeous! 6y

TheBookgeekFrau What a cute idea for a ring bearer pillow! 6y

daniwithtea That‘s beautiful!!! 6y

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mom2bugnbee This is a brilliant idea! 6y

BarbaraJean @MrBook @daniwithtea Thank you! @C.Perone @mom2bugnbee I thought so, but my poor nephew who had to hold a stack of books for the whole ceremony had a different opinion! That‘s the main thing he remembers about my wedding: “The books got sooooo heavy!!!” 6y

TheBookgeekFrau 😄 6y

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