Whitetext Poetry

[blue_ajah]

Because I said I would do it, and because although I am not a poet myself I wanted to credit those who are....

Behind the cut is the list of all the poems used for lines in whitetext during the Nyarlathotep plot. Or at least the ones I know, anyway -- it includes all the ones from Moiraine's comments, plus some from Narla's, Bernard's, and Death's. If there are others that should be added, please feel free to comment here.


* Aiken, Conrad Potter: The House of Dust
* Blake, William: Fair Elenor
* Blake, William: Visions of the Daughters of Albion
* Baudelaire, Charles: Beacons
* Bronte, Anne: Night
* Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnet VI: Go From Me
* Browning, Robert: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
* Cawein, Madison: Haunters of the Silence
* de la Mare, Walter: The Dark Chateau
* Dickinson, Emily: Much Madness is divinest Sense
* Dickinson, Emily: We dream-- it is good we are dreaming
* Donne, John: The Dream
* Donne, John: Go and Catch a Falling Star
* Eisley: Marvelous Things (song lyrics)
* Feldman, Alan: A Memoir
* Gibran, Khalil: The Beauty of Death XIV
* Gordon, George, Lord Byron: When We Two Parted
* Graves, Robert: Symptoms of Love
* Hines, Kerry: Nights
* Jackson, Helen Hunt: To an Absent Lover
* Keats, John: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
* Kinnell, Galway: The Book of Nightmares
* Kinnell, Galway: Poem of Night
* Kinnell, Galway: Wait
* Kipling, Rudyard: The Prayer of Miriam Cohen
* Lovecraft, HP: Despair
* Lovecraft, HP: The Garden
* Lovecraft, HP: Halcyon Days
* Lovecraft, HP: Laeta; A Lament
* Lovecraft, HP: The Messenger
* Lovecraft, HP: Nathicana
* Lovecraft, HP: Nemesis
* Lovecraft, HP: Polaris
* Lovecraft, HP: Revelation
* Malroux, Claire: Couples
* Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Dirge Without Music
* Millay, Edna St. Vincent: The Dream
* Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Mariposa
* Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Sonnets 12: Cherish You then the Hope I Shall Forget
* Montgomery, Lucy Maud: In an Old Town Garden
* Neruda, Pablo: In My Sky at Twilight
* Neruda, Pablo: Love
* Neruda, Pablo: A Song of Despair
* Neruda, Pablo: Sonnet LXXXI
* Pinsky, Robert: Banknote
* Plath, Sylvia: Edge
* Plath, Sylvia: Monologue at 3 AM
* Poe, Edgar Allan: A Dream
* Poe, Edgar Allan: A Dream Within a Dream
* Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich: Morpheus
* Radcliffe, Ann: The Magic Mirrors
* Ravikovitch, Dahlia: Dress of Fire
* Rickerby, Helen: Fury
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: Again and Again, However We Know the Landscape of Love
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: Death
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: Love Song
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: Portrait of my Father as a Young Man
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: Silent friend of many distances (from Sonnets to Orpheus) (not whitetext, but still!)
* Rilke, Rainer Maria: You, Darkness
* Rossetti, Christina: A Chilly Night
* Rossetti, Christina: Mirage
* Sandburg, Carl: Among the Red Guns
* Sandburg, Carl: Dream Girl
* Sandburg, Carl: Dreams in the Dusk
* Sandburg, Carl: Hope is a Tattered Flag
* Shakespeare, William: Sonnet CXVI, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
* Song of Songs/Song of Solomon: Chapter 8, v. 6
* Swinburne, Algernon Charles: A Dead Friend
* Swinburne, Algernon Charles: The Garden of Proserpine
* Thomson, James: The City of Dreadful Night
* Whitman, Walt: Of Him I Love Day and Night
* Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: Noblesse Oblige
* Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: Wherefore
* Wordsworth, William: On Intimations of Immortality
* Yeats, William Butler: Easter, 1916

Thanks go out to those who jumped on the bandwagon and sent me poetry and poem-finding resources, particularly Gen, Rymenhild, Saph, Viv, Madb, and Shati. :)

Comments

[sign-seeker.livejournal.com]

Yay. :) *admires all the lovely poems*

[agonistes]

*grins* Slightly less erudite than the other folks on the list, but Roland used whitetext once...

Jagger, Mick, and Keith Richards: Paint It Black.

[to-the-fairest1.livejournal.com]

*needs another copy of that song*

[wadewilsonsdead.livejournal.com]

Lee "Scratch" Perry and Max Romeo, "Chase the Devil" (http://www.claat.com/article/view/335/1/83), seen here. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/2842164.html?thread=108758836#t108758836)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Lovely list!

When did you use the Blake? I missed it.

[silveraspen]

On a couple of occasions, actually. Of course, right now I can't find where I used the quote from "Fair Elanor" -- I know it was based on the "my lord is like a star in highest heaven drawn down to earth by spells and wickedness" verse, but I don't have it here. I'll find it later... :)

The other, from "Visions of..." was here in this conversation with Anthy.