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nf7mate 24-Mar-09, 09:53	Poems Within Novels I love coming across a poem or song within a novel I read. It's such a treasure to enjoy an occasional brief piece of poetry as a part of my enjoyment of a novel. What are some of your favorite poems that were written not to be published as works in and of themselves, but rather to be included in a novel?
nf7mate 24-Mar-09, 09:56	Jabberwocky This wonderful poem is found in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Alice comes across this poem written backwards in a book, which she reads by holding it up to a mirror.
nf7mate 26-Mar-09, 12:28	The Song of Beren and Luthien This fictional history poem is found in Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring. It has a pleasant mythological feel to it. Here's an excerpt: Again she fled, but swift he came. Tinúviel! Tinúviel! He called her by her elvish name; And there she halted listening. One moment stood she, and a spell His voice laid on her: Beren came, And doom fell on Tinúviel That in his arms lay glistening. The full story of Beren and Luthien is told in Tolkien's Silmarillion.
cyna 16-Apr-09, 23:45	Paul Charles Morphy The following poem is an excerpt from the book, "Poems And Prose Sketches, With A Biographical Memoir Of Paul Charles Morphy" (1921) by Louis Albert Morphy (I had not the foggiest idea that Mr. Paul Charles Morphy was also a great poet): A REFLECTION “Face to face with Death, I see the meaning of Life: I see but one contest, When the World, habit-formed, Says, “This” And a Conscience, mind-enlightened, Says, “That.” The answer comes in time. I can not say just when, or how.” By Paul Charles Morphy Another of his poem's, also from the above referenced book: THE INSPIRATION OF GENIUS "I rise above the fires of love, The drivelling touch of flesh, And love’s caresses; The maddened eyes, And clinging arms, Of trust, forsaken. I wed me now To one yon star, That beckons on To glory and renown, Twin steeds That draw the chariot of life. So, list , fond Soul, To the song of old, In the hearts Of the men of earth; For, I fly to the sky, Where none durst try, Who dare not travel alone." By Paul Charles Morphy
nf7mate 05-May-09, 10:07	The Law of the Jungle Found in The Jungle Book by Kipling. A code of ethics for wolves, written in rhyme.
cyna 05-May-09, 11:46	Cool!! I'll have to check it out... Thank you!!

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