Tweety

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Poem Meme

via hobbitblue (first), and others:

When you see this, post (one of) your favourite poem(s) in your LJ (a person can have many more than one).

Stand Whoso List
by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
   Of court’s estates, and let me here rejoice;
And use me quiet without let or stop,
   Unknown in court, that hath such brackish joys:
      In hidden place, so let my days forth pass,
   That when my years be done, withouten noise,
      I may die agèd after the common trace,
For him death gripeth right hard by the crope
   That is much known of other; and of himself alas,
   Doth die unknown, dazed with dreadful face.

(Although, to be honest, the poem uppermost in my mind today is the one I've been teaching Looby Loo, which begins: "A gardener, Tobias Baird, / Sent his head to be repaired....")