Poems that remind me of The Doctor
Is there anyone else out there who thinks that a poetry anthology illustrated with DW screen caps would be absolutely awesome? What would you put in it?
Here are a few ideas from me, based mainly on Day of the Doctor:
"I struck the board and cry'd 'No More'!"
George Herbert, 'The Collar'
I pleaded, outlaw--wise by many a hearted casement,
curtained red, trellised with inter-twining charities,
For though I knew His love who followe'd,
Yet was I sore adread, lest having Him,
I should have nought beside.
But if one little casement parted wide,
The gust of his approach would clash it to.
Fear wist not to evade as Love wist to pursue.
Across the margent of the world I fled,
And troubled the gold gateways of the stars,
Smiting for shelter on their clange'd bars,
Fretted to dulcet jars and silvern chatter
The pale ports of the moon.
Francis Thompson, 'The Hound of Haven'
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet:
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Between the taking of a toast and tea.
T S Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
That last selection gives me a whole new idea to play with - we've had the Doctor's Iliad, now for the Odyssey.
Here's one that I'd illustrate with the Doctor/Clara hug at the beginning, but it could almost be a metaphor for the whole Doctor/Companion relationship:
Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.
Leigh Hunt
And don't get me started on Shakespeare or The Four Quartets - I'd be here all day!
Here are a few ideas from me, based mainly on Day of the Doctor:
"I struck the board and cry'd 'No More'!"
George Herbert, 'The Collar'
I pleaded, outlaw--wise by many a hearted casement,
curtained red, trellised with inter-twining charities,
For though I knew His love who followe'd,
Yet was I sore adread, lest having Him,
I should have nought beside.
But if one little casement parted wide,
The gust of his approach would clash it to.
Fear wist not to evade as Love wist to pursue.
Across the margent of the world I fled,
And troubled the gold gateways of the stars,
Smiting for shelter on their clange'd bars,
Fretted to dulcet jars and silvern chatter
The pale ports of the moon.
Francis Thompson, 'The Hound of Haven'
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet:
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Between the taking of a toast and tea.
T S Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
That last selection gives me a whole new idea to play with - we've had the Doctor's Iliad, now for the Odyssey.
Here's one that I'd illustrate with the Doctor/Clara hug at the beginning, but it could almost be a metaphor for the whole Doctor/Companion relationship:
Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.
Leigh Hunt
And don't get me started on Shakespeare or The Four Quartets - I'd be here all day!