David Davies' Weblog » Poetry http://david.davies.name/weblog Just making it up as I go along Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Alfred, Lord Tennyson – In Memoriam http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/20/alfred-lord-tennyson-in-memoriam/ http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/20/alfred-lord-tennyson-in-memoriam/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:38:13 +0000 David http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/20/alfred-lord-tennyson-in-memoriam/ Continue reading →]]> Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;
Nor any want-begotten rest.

I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

]]> http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/20/alfred-lord-tennyson-in-memoriam/feed/ 0 The More Loving One by W.H. Auden http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/18/the-more-loving-one-by-wh-auden/ http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/18/the-more-loving-one-by-wh-auden/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:57:28 +0000 David http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/03/18/the-more-loving-one-by-wh-auden/ Continue reading →]]> Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

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