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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jamdin" data-source="post: 400834" data-attributes="member: 1043">My favorite poem is:Song ["When I am dead"]by Christina RossettiWhen I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree.Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget.I shall not see the shadows,I shall not feel the rain;I shall not hear the nightingaleSing on as if in pain.And dreaming through the twilightThat doth not rise nor set,Haply I may remember,And haply may forget. Note: I first heard this on an old 33 vinyl record album with Jonathan Frid & David Shelby doing poems to music from "Dark Shadows." Jonathan Frid's version still sends shivers through my spine.My second favorite is:Our revels now are ended by William ShakespeareOur revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.Note: Jonathan Frid also recited this poem on the same album as "Song" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Other favorite poems include...well, you just have to visit my site for them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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