One meme lead to another...

[hellison]

Firstly the poetry meme, from mirrorshard,
Pick one of your favourite poems and post it, then tag others to do the same.
Enforced memeage is a bit of a pain, so no specific tags. Just go for it ;)

I was going to wait til I got home and check the pome books, but then tyrell informs us that it is LJ Rabbit Hole day. So really, this was the only choice - and is genuinely one of my favourite poems. I used to be able to recite the whole thing. These days, I can only manage snatches alas.


Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


For those new to it, an explanation

Comments

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yep. I was totally stuck and going to have to wait til I was at home, til the Rabbit Hole day inspiration struck.

I could easily post about 5 more just off the top of my head (well, after a bit of google searching for full words ;p)

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I was in an even worse state, I have my poetry library eighteen inches from my left knee. It was bad enough trying to work out which book to look in first, till I went for the lazy option and remembered I had a text file of one I was in the mood for favouriting anyway.