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> There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual, and one of them is The Ladder of St. Augustine, by Henry Wadsworth Longfel
by oskarth 14y ago
> There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual, and one of them is The Ladder of St. Augustine, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (of Paul Revere fame).
Out of curiosity, if it isn't too personal, which are the other ones?
- simonsarris 14y agoOne random by Du Fu, I have a book on my desk with several bookmarked. They are hard to understand without knowing the time period (he lived through one of the largest losses of life on the planet), but here's one that's fairly neutral: nothttps://gist.github.com/simonsarris/5472121 https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/5472121 Mad River, also by HW Longellow (I live on this river) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mad_River http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mad_River St. Augustine, which was above And one from a collection of poems by an "amateur", the poet most dear to me, and one of the few people who has encouraged me to write: http://everything2.com/user/etouffee/writeups http://everything2.com/user/etouffee/writeups