To: kenavi
I wouldn't say that his own epitaph is characteristic - especially looking back at a chaotic life dabbling in the occult.
Look at the rest of the late poem from which it comes, and you'll see what I mean.
Under Ben Bulben
He's just entirely unlike Eliot (and not far from a loon.)
212 posted on
05/03/2012 6:35:41 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
His poems are memorable, so many lines come unbidden to mind:
"While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless
234 posted on
05/03/2012 10:02:58 AM PDT by
kenavi
(1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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