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If you see this, post a poem in your own LJ.






Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Dylan Thomas



What, I really like this one. I feel so snobbish orz. then again my favorite is actually Shakespeare so… yeah

And one in Portuguese just because \o/




Caminheiro que passas pela estrada,
Seguindo pelo rumo do sertão,
Quando vires a cruz abandonada,
Deixa-a em paz dormir na solidão.

Que vale o ramo do alecrim cheiroso
Que lhe atiras nos braços ao passar?
Vais espantar o bando buliçoso
Das borboletas, que lá vão pousar.

É de um escravo humilde sepultura,
Foi-lhe a vida o velar de insônia atroz.
Deixa-o dormir no leito de verdura,
Que o Senhor dentre as selvas lhe compôs.

Não precisa de ti. O gaturamo
Geme, por ele, à tarde, no sertão.
E a juriti, do taquaral no ramo,
Povoa, soluçando, a solidão.

Dentre os braços da cruz, a parasita,
Num braço de flores, se prendeu.
Chora orvalhos a grama, que palpita;
Lhe acende o vaga-lume o facho seu.

Quando, à noite, o silêncio habita as matas,
A sepultura fala a sós com Deus.
Prende-se a voz na boca das cascatas,
E as asas de ouro aos astros lá nos céus.

Caminheiro! do escravo desgraçado
O sono agora mesmo começou!
Não lhe toques no leito de noivado,
Há pouco a liberdade o desposou.

Castro Alves




So. What are your favorite poems?

now back to the boring stuff
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