Donald Ian Rankin
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Sat Apr-07-07 03:03 PM
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Can anyone help me place a fragment of poetry, please? |
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Something like
"Why should my heart have been under her heel, Where a heart had no reason to be?"
It's a man talking about how a woman he has given his heart to has trampled it, but he doesn't blame her. I can half-remember the poem, but not who it's by or what it's called. I can't find it using google. Can anyone help me, please?
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Tue Apr-10-07 09:20 AM
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1. Wish I could help you with that. I've been trying for decades |
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to find out the origin of the line, "Sweet bird of youth, where hast thou flown?" I've searched in every quotations book I can lay my hands on. I've searched using various search engines.
It's from some Victorian poem, because I ran into it in a Victorian literature class, but I don't remember the title or the author.
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Wed Apr-11-07 02:06 PM
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Edited on Wed Apr-11-07 02:10 PM by BurtWorm
I just googled it. The actual line is "Sweet bird of youth, wither hast thou flown?"
PS: On closer inspection, I don't know if it is Tennyson, because if you Google his name and the phrase "Sweet bird of youth" nothing turns up.
:shrug:
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Fiatjustitia
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Sun May-13-07 08:27 PM
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3. Perhaps you are thinking of different lines... |
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Edited on Sun May-13-07 08:28 PM by Fiatjustitia
This is William Butler Yeats' "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in which similar lines appear at the end:
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
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Mon May-21-07 04:18 PM
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4. Can't help directly... |
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but there's a Tennessee Williams play, "Sweet Bird of Youth", and it occurs to me that it's just possible that an annotated edition of the play might give the origin of the poem.
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