{ so I moan / left alone. }

[delga]

Today I showered, put on a wash, and simplified my userinfo. I'm about to go down to the store (in need of bread!) and then I'm going to watch Pirates of the Caribbean whilst sorting out my reading timetable. Huzzah, huzzah.

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Yesterday I watched The Last Legion. Oh, Aishwarya. What, what, what. It was quite enjoyable, if not odd. Very odd. Odd in the way of being quite bad, actually, and yet compelling. Possibly this is because of Aishwarya and Colin Firth. Possibly this is because I'm easy.

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Hahahahaha, picfor1000. Oh dear. (I really want to write something for behindthesong but my brain is apparently striking in solidarity with the WGA.

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I just found that copy of Chinese poems I bought at the beginning of the academic year (Three Chinese Poets, trans. Vikram Seth). However. Have some Christina Rossetti.

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Confluents.
by Christina Rossetti

As rivers seek the sea,
     Much more deep than they,
So my soul seeks thee
     Far away:
As running rivers moan
On their course alone,
     So I moan
     Left alone.

As the delicate rose
     To the sun's sweet strength
Doth herself unclose,
     Breadth and length;
So spreads my heart to thee
Unveiled utterly,
     I to thee
     Utterly.

As morning dew exhales
     Sunwards pure and free
So my spirit fails
     After thee:
As dew leaves not a trace
On the green earth's face;
     I, no trace
     On thy face.

Its goal the river knows,
     Dewdrops find a way,
Sunlight cheers the rose
     In her day:
Shall I, love sorrow past,
Find thee at last?
     Sorrow past,
     Thee at last?

Hmm. I own copies of Dante, Donne and Rossetti, but I have yet to really find anything in these collections that I truly like. See the above. The first stanza is excellent, and then it gradually declines in meaning (for me). And such, it is a little disappointing. But I think possibly I have spent too long reading Neruda to enjoy other love poems.

Comments

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hi, TAKE A BREATH M'DEAR. !!!

lols, I will HAVE to look it up now, won't I?

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Loving all these poems at the moment. It's always nice to have a bit of poetry amongst all the football and TV and flailing on my flist.

Have you ever read any Rilke? He's my favourite poet.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I am on such a poetry kick recently. I'm loving it.

Yes! I have some to post soon.

[santabutt.livejournal.com]

yay for poetry!
i'm actually doing sonnets in uni right now and donne is one that i'm analysing for an oral presentation. i don't want to be an annoyance, but you wouldn't have any notes for his sonnet 14, would ya?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hey. Sorry, I don't at all. I've never studied Donne; I just own a small collection... which I haven't even read properly. (C18th-C19th poetry = not really my thing.)