Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Lit. Sources

Percy Bysshe Shelley once said,
" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
I am not sure if that is true:)
In the meantime some rich sources of lit.:
1. Academy of American Poets
2. The Literature Network
3. Arts & Letters Daily

Dylan Thomas

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars...


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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More of Dylan Thomas work here