literary tattoos
I've been thinking lately of getting a new tattoo.
I was thinking for awhile to do a small rose and a small lily intertwined somewhere to represent my two babies (Lily, obviously, and Rose is Ella's middle name) and that's something I still really want to do.
I've been trolling contrariwise.org for awhile, I just love tattoos from books and poems and it's so neat to see how a certain turn of a phrase affects people in different ways, how people interpret things differently, how the same poem invokes such different emotions in people.
I really love books and words in general, I know so dorky haha but I have always loved words, as long as I can remember.
In elementary school I had this OOOOLLLLD book of poems and I loved that thing, I memorized this one poem by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789-1865) and I still know it to this day! So I'm thinking of getting the last line written on me somewhere.
'for glory or for shame'
the poem goes like this
Alone I walked the ocean strand,
a pearly shell was in my hand.
I stooped and wrote upon the sand
my name, the year, the day.
As onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast -
a wave came rolling, high and fast,
to wash my lines away.
And so, I thought, 'twill shortly be
with every mark on Earth from me,
a wave of dark Oblivion's sea
will sweep across the place,
of where I trod the sandy shore,
Of time, and been, to be no more,
Of me, my year, the name I bore,
to leave no track nor trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
and holds the waters in His hands,
I know a lasting record stands,
inscribed against my name.
Of all this mortal part has wrought,
of all this thinking soul has thought,
and from these fleeting moment's caught -
for glory, or for shame.
LOL this is the kind of child I was.
And when we had to recite a poem in class and the other kids did
Homework Oh Homework I hate you, you stink!
Can you imagine? Oh lord I was a piece of work. I am so embarrassed!
I don't want to think about that anymore haha
Anyway. Seriously considering. We'll see.
now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I'd put in a little white daisy with the rose and lily to represent myself! hmmm...
I was thinking for awhile to do a small rose and a small lily intertwined somewhere to represent my two babies (Lily, obviously, and Rose is Ella's middle name) and that's something I still really want to do.
I've been trolling contrariwise.org for awhile, I just love tattoos from books and poems and it's so neat to see how a certain turn of a phrase affects people in different ways, how people interpret things differently, how the same poem invokes such different emotions in people.
I really love books and words in general, I know so dorky haha but I have always loved words, as long as I can remember.
In elementary school I had this OOOOLLLLD book of poems and I loved that thing, I memorized this one poem by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789-1865) and I still know it to this day! So I'm thinking of getting the last line written on me somewhere.
'for glory or for shame'
the poem goes like this
Alone I walked the ocean strand,
a pearly shell was in my hand.
I stooped and wrote upon the sand
my name, the year, the day.
As onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast -
a wave came rolling, high and fast,
to wash my lines away.
And so, I thought, 'twill shortly be
with every mark on Earth from me,
a wave of dark Oblivion's sea
will sweep across the place,
of where I trod the sandy shore,
Of time, and been, to be no more,
Of me, my year, the name I bore,
to leave no track nor trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
and holds the waters in His hands,
I know a lasting record stands,
inscribed against my name.
Of all this mortal part has wrought,
of all this thinking soul has thought,
and from these fleeting moment's caught -
for glory, or for shame.
LOL this is the kind of child I was.
And when we had to recite a poem in class and the other kids did
Homework Oh Homework I hate you, you stink!
Can you imagine? Oh lord I was a piece of work. I am so embarrassed!
I don't want to think about that anymore haha
Anyway. Seriously considering. We'll see.
now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I'd put in a little white daisy with the rose and lily to represent myself! hmmm...