Robert Frost's "Bereft"
See now, that's why I poll the people because I wouldn't have thought of that.
More please!
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:40:52 am PDT #6444 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Jun 20, 2008 8:45:18 am PDT #6445 of 28461
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Also, Frost's "Acquainted with the Night".
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:48:17 am PDT #6446 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Robert Frost, ubergoth.
Well, he was born in San Francisco. That's got to count for something.
Is nobody going to pimp for Poe?
Scrappy - Jun 20, 2008 8:48:26 am PDT #6447 of 28461
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman"
Christine Rosetti's "Goblin Market"
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 8:49:08 am PDT #6448 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think Goblin Market might win in a Goth Poetry Deathmatch.
lisah - Jun 20, 2008 8:52:26 am PDT #6449 of 28461
Punishingly Intricate
I think Goblin Market might win in a Goth Poetry Deathmatch
Oh yeah! I just got a full body shiver thinking about it!
Jesse - Jun 20, 2008 8:58:43 am PDT #6450 of 28461
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Junot Diaz was on the Colbert Report on Wednesday. He was pretty awesome.
Awesome. I will watch that tonight!
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:00:14 am PDT #6451 of 28461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think Goblin Market might win in a Goth Poetry Deathmatch.
It certainly gets my vote.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:01:55 am PDT #6452 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It certainly gets my vote.
C'mon now, I'm depending on you to round out the top ten.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:03:17 am PDT #6453 of 28461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If Jen weren't traveling today, I'd get her choice for Gothiest Shakespearean Sonnet.
Also, Jilli, since you're a trained singer, what would be the Gothiest Opera?
Macbeth? Bluebeard?