FERN HILL
by Dylan Thomas
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.
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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREEby William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Nice, Lissa. It even looks a little Greek and therefore scholarly.
Posted by: Susan | June 05, 2006 at 04:26 PM
i love that you did that.
Posted by: xixi | June 08, 2006 at 09:03 AM
I think that it has a very nice ring to it (kidlitosphere). For me, it's the world that I want to live in, though I doubt I could say it five times fast. Thanks for the link, by the way. Your referred visitors definitely helped to get the list to 200 (and already slipping past that - cool girls really capture the imagination).
Posted by: Jen Robinson | June 14, 2006 at 09:51 AM
Kidlitosphere! I like it. I think you may be on to something here!
Posted by: Sheila Ruth | June 15, 2006 at 04:53 PM
Liking the word. Make sure Stephen Colbert knows about it.
Posted by: Little Willow | June 15, 2006 at 09:44 PM
Have you tried googling it lately? You seem to have started something. :)
Posted by: Kathryn Judson | June 22, 2006 at 11:34 PM
Look at it now!
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,470 for kidlitosphere. (0.02 seconds)
!!!
Posted by: Little Willow | March 09, 2007 at 06:53 PM
I just thought of this post and googled kidlitosphere. It's up to 11,900!
Posted by: Anne Marie | May 19, 2008 at 03:22 PM