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boingo
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/16/2012 11:28PM - in reply to Trebmuh Trebmuh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Huh??
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/16/2012 11:31PM - in reply to troof be told Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

troof be told wrote:

"There once was a girl from Nantucket"


A girl?
trewpoiu
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/16/2012 11:44PM - in reply to Huh?? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
They say that in war
That truth
Be the first casualty


-Zacharias De La Rocha
Homer'sIlliad
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/16/2012 11:59PM - in reply to trewpoiu Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
RAGE: Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.

-Illiad (Lombardo)
e.e. cummings
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 12:32AM - in reply to Homer'sIlliad Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
scroca
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 6:55AM - in reply to songster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Today is your birthday! Today you are you!...There is no one alive that is you-er than you!
Hulk
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 9:49PM - in reply to malmo Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

malmo wrote:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary


This
Another view
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 10:01PM - in reply to Heidi Hoe Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
No contest.
+1


Heidi Hoe wrote:

"There once was a man from Nantucket.."
Anikka
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 10:21PM - in reply to Another view Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
The sea yields to knowledge
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 10:58PM - in reply to Homer'sIlliad Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys / after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel.
bacon1
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/17/2012 11:22PM - in reply to songster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Do you like green eggs and ham?
The rest of the story
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/18/2012 12:44AM - in reply to Trebmuh Trebmuh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Read 'em, & weep:

I met a traveler from an antique land

It little profits that an idle king,

Turning and turning in a widening gyre

There are strange things done in the midnight sun

A cold coming we had of it

Hog Butcher for the World,


Shelley
Tennyson
Yeats
Eliot
Service
Sandburg
pr100
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/18/2012 2:59AM - in reply to songster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...
Mrs. M
RE: Best opening line in a poem? 6/18/2012 7:40AM - in reply to pr100 Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

pr100 wrote:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...


^my favorite so far....^
Here's the entire first stanza:
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.'
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