http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/is-there-anybody-there Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 22:56:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/is-there-anybody-there#post-288611 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:05:56 +0000 pantechnicon 288611@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I like it, though i quite like Graves after reading &quot;Goodbye to all that&quot; at school. Strange one to remember though. I remember mine because it&#39;s so short. Thanks for sharing - anyone else out there? </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/is-there-anybody-there#post-288521 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:33:59 +0000 Ambrosia 288521@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Dunno if it&#39;s my favourite, but it&#39;s the only poem I&#39;ve ever been able to remember off by heart.</p> <p>The butterfly, a cabbage-white,<br /> (His honest idiocy of flight)<br /> Will never now, it is too late,<br /> Master the art of flying straight,<br /> He has--who knows so well as I?--<br /> A just sense of how not to fly:<br /> He lurches here and here by guess<br /> And God and hope and hopelessness.<br /> Even the aerobatic swift<br /> Has not his flying-crooked gift.</p> <p>-- Robert Graves </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/is-there-anybody-there#post-288515 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:32:08 +0000 pantechnicon 288515@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>This Is The First Thing</p> <p>by Philip Larkin</p> <p>This is the first thing<br /> I have understood:<br /> Time is the echo of an axe<br /> Within a wood.</p> <p>This is my favourite poem of all time - pun intended. Anyone else out there with their favourite poems? </p>