Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 09, 2005, 06:35
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Both excellent Hob - thank you (and duly added to growing stack).
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nigelswift
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:54
William Blake: Jerusalem, Ch 3
Jul 09, 2005, 07:52
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"They become like they behold! Yet immense in strength and power,
In awful pomp and gold, in all the precious unhewn stones of Eden
They build a stupendous Building on the Plain of Salisbury, with chains
Of rocks round London Stone, of Reasonings, of unhewn Demonstrations
In labyrinthine arches (Mighty Urizen the Architect) thro' which
The heavens might revolve and Eternity be bound in their chain.
Labour unparallell'd! a wondrous rocky World of cruel destiny,
Rocks piled on rocks reaching the stars, stretching from pole to pole.
The Building is Natural Religion & its Altars Natural Morality,
A building of eternal death, whose proportions are eternal despair."
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Littlestone
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Re: William Blake, Jerusalem, Ch 3
Jul 09, 2005, 10:04
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Thank you for reminding me of that Nigel.
As with most I was saddened and sickened by Thursday's carnage in London; and if asked to express my feelings on philosophical 'buildings' of hatred, death and destruction perhaps Blake's last line will suffice -
"A building of eternal death, whose proportions are eternal despair."
And in a more defiant if not in a lighter mood -
"All things begin and end in Albion's ancient Druid rocky shore.
But now the Starry Heavens are fled from the mighty limbs of Albion."
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 09, 2005, 12:41
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David Dimbleby's excellent series <b>A Picture of Britain</b> concludes tomorrow (10 July) at 9pm with, "A journey from Stonehenge in Wiltshire to Cornwall, via Snowdonia in Wales, encompasses the land of Thomas Hardy's tragic love affairs, Dylan Thomas's idiosyncratic poems, the legend of King Arthur and the spectacular mountain paintings of Richard Wilson."*
* Radio Times. 9-15 July, page 68.
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nigelswift
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 09, 2005, 13:01
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Richard Wilson is God
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=16242&tabview=image
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 09, 2005, 13:14
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Oooooh!
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Wiggy
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:54
John Masefield: Reynard the Fox
Jul 20, 2005, 13:35
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....Then up the hill that the Wan Dyke rings
Where the sarsen stones stand grand like kings
..............
Seven Sarsens of granite grim
As he ran them by they looked at him
From "Reynard the Fox"(extract) by John Masefield - early 1920's.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 21, 2005, 23:26
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Thanks Wiggy - just read your great little snippet from <b>Reynard the Fox</b> and it's now duly added to the growing stack of contributions to <b>An Anthology of Megalithic Poems</b>.
Are there any more out there? Either your poems or those of others?
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Moth
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:55
Jane Tomlinson
Jul 21, 2005, 23:38
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Ayup Littlestone
Haven't really been following this thread & frankly can't be arsed to wade through it (!!!!) but I assume you've got Jane's from her profile page? Just in case, here it is (apologies if you've already got it):
Big old rocks I find appealling
Their secrets they are not revealing
Some are chambers, some are tombs
Hidden in valleys and in combes
Some are said to act like clocks
With shadows cast out from their rocks
I like the way they just survive
When I visit, I feel alive
So I chase my rocks around the maps
Round England, Ireland and France, perhaps
But there ain't nothin' that I liked so much
As to see the Hunebedden, dem is Dutch.
love
Moth
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jul 21, 2005, 23:50
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Yep, thanks Moth (I do have that one of Jane's).
Also have a rather lovely poem by a certain 'Swift' (which appeared elsewhere on TMA some time ago but which I think now needs reposting again here (permission to post milord ;-)
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