Anyone like fine poetry?

[Zoot Allures]

Short poems or great quotes from poems or edited poems for shortness



A Quote from a poem about conceit

The Lay of the last Minstrel by Walter Scott


The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

 

[Zoot Allures]

I heard a Fly buzz when I died - Emily Dickenson
(I edited it for shortness)

She is dying and contemplating heaven then the last thing she hears is a fly as she dies


I heard a Fly buzz when I died
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air
Between the Heaves of Storm

With Blue, uncertain stumbling Buzz
Between the light and me
And then the Windows failed
And then
I could not see to see

 

[Mandala]

Read by the author Robert Frost

 

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