h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As I was searching for another poem guess what I found ? It is indeed a very beautiful poem...


The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Oh and of course this was out of competition...

TM.

I read this forum at work so I had to look it up again. I was quite suprised to see this poem on the same small website together with the one I made a journal-entry on... A work in progress by the way...

TM.

Which poem TM?

The *Two roads converge* poem is a journal entry by Lethe I think...but then maybe I forgot!
shazzPRME

Found the rest of it. Sonnet CVI if you really wanted to know. IMHO the best collection of english words ever.


When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rime,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And for they looked but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Thanx Marv I knew it was *he* of course...but I am not very good with the numbers ;-(
shazzPRME

Well I just opened my book to this one once. It has been my favorite poem ever since.

In that case you must know this one then :
*Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Though art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wandrest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest,
So long as men can live and or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.*
shazzPRME

Spoken by an old drunken chap to a bottle of twelve year old scotch.LOL

I think I go my forums mixed up... Oh well. Here's $40 for my stay at N.Y. AVE. Marv. So whose the shoe? You're next.

I have sung that Frost poem put to mucic. It is a wonderful choir piece.

Hoew do I love thee? Let me count the ways. One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand... I Marvin Acme. Being of sound mind and body... ITS THE WILL!!!!

Rodger Rabbit LOL