Most overused love poems at this time of year?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

If I hear/read Elizabeth Barret Browning's "Sonnet XLIII" one more fucking time, nobody will be counting any ways in which he/she loves another being. Besides, y'all ain't allowed to love other people when there are lost souls wand'ring around. :P

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints!---I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

*gags*

*dons flame suit*

:P

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Robert Burns -- "My love is like a red red rose/That's newly sprung in June", etc.

Also, Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Those two are almost as overused as that one.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Oh, I forgot Shakepeare's infamous #18.

:D

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

:grr:

[idgiehkt]

16. yep

:puke:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. How have you been inundated with that poem?

I haven't read/heard it once this year until I clicked on this thread.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. I've heard it twice already today.

They must not like EBB in Jersey.

:P :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Where the hell did you hear it?

And NJ is way better than Maine.

Looking forward to February break? Do they have that in Maine?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. Radio had it on this morning.

Teacher at school was practicing reciting it--methinks she has ulterior motives, aka sex. :P

"Break"? What is this "break" of which you speak? :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. In NJ high schools, you get a week off in February. Too bad your HS doesn't.

[Midlodemocrat]

15. My kids only get a week off in April, but in CT they get a week

in Feb. and in April.

They go a week longer than my kids, but I'll tell you, March is a loooonnnnnnggggg month down here.

One good thing, April is warm enough to go to the Breakers in Myrtle Beach. Yeah, baby. :bounce:

[LostinVA]

18. I've been there

I lived in NC for 17 years -- including Wilmington for several.

I remember when MB was SMALL.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. It does, silly.

I'm just joshin' round.

:P

[otherlander]

31. I read a poem

about a man who dreamt he died. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, "i lived on only in your heart, had only your eyes to counter my death, and only your lips stood against the whole of non-existence."

[Rhythm]

4. Byron's "She Walks In Beauty"...

my all-time favorite, but still... enough is enough.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Yeah, I mean it isn't that they're bad poems, just wildly overused.

ORIGINALITY, people!

:P

[Rhythm]

21. i guess it could be worse... could be sing-song crap like this

I have seen this on cards, posters, etc... for at least 30 years
Gods only know how old it really is...

I thought that you would like to know
That my thoughts go where you go,
That I never can forget
The hours we spent since first we met
That life is richer sweater far
For such a sweetheart as you are
And now my constant prayer will be
That God may keep you safe for me

[LostinVA]

8. Ah, leave EBB alone -- she's a great one to read this time of year

She and Robert Browning had a true love match, and he rescued her from a not great home situation. He was loving, gallant, and disregarded social conventions and "rules" of the time to marry Elizabeth.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Oh, I know.

It's just that poem is So. Overdone. :D

[Left Is Write]

11. Roses are red, violets are blue, you look like a monkey and smell like one too.

:)

(No, WIMR, that is NOT directed at you or anyone else.)

[Crabby Appleton]

26. crap, I was gonna use that poem

[Kutjara]

13. The loving thee after death part...

...is illegal in some states, so let's be careful, people.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. No such thing as an overused love poem.

Someone, somewhere melts when he/she reads it; whatever it is.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Exactly.

LostinVA gave me a book of love poems by gay and lesbian poets, and it was one of the sweetest gifts. And ThomCat gave us a book of lesbian love poems when we stayed at his apartment. He's such a sweet guy.

Of course, Lost and I don't have a poem, but we do have a song.

[LostinVA]

20. I love our song

Sometimes I listen to it on the way to work and think of you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. I always think of you when I hear it.

"Chasing Cars" is the perfect song for us.

[LostinVA]

24. *HUGS*

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. *HUGS*

:loveya:

[Deja Q]

23. There was a woman from Nantucket...

:crazy:

[ThomCat]

27. Nah uh.

"There once was a man from nantucket..." :P

[Midlodemocrat]

28. bucket? Phuket?

*scratches head*


:P

:hi:

[SOteric]

29. Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

Til his daughter, named 'Nan'
Ran off with a man.

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

[ThomCat]

30. Wow!

A limerick that won't get deleted!

That's talent! :yourock: