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Post by Armstrong on Dec 23, 2003 8:17:04 GMT -5
If you have a link to the poem "Canute and the Tide" post it here please.
Thanks
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Post by pashingflower on Dec 23, 2003 9:11:32 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this is the one you mean....it's called Canute, not Canute and the Tide
Canute
Think you by a hand that you can stop the mighty weight
of tide driven by forces that your mind could never grasp?
Think you by a word that nature can be so subsumed
to do your simple bidding like a servant or a slave?
Think you by a thought that you can alter that which is,
suborning to your will the very turning of the world?
Think you by a gesture that the Earth would bow to you,
that you could be the one to hold the sea within your thrall?
#%^@$ish man, and arrogant; this path will end in pain,
for I will drown you in an ocean deeper than your pride…
…and yet, begrudging admiration flowers in my mind,
for with your life you paid the price of following your dream...
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Post by Armstrong on Dec 23, 2003 10:22:03 GMT -5
Think you by a hand that you can stop the mighty weight of tide driven by forces that your mind could never grasp? Think you by a word that nature can be so subsumed to do your simple bidding like a servant or a slave? Think you by a thought that you can alter that which is, suborning to your will the very turning of the world? Think you by a gesture that the Earth would bow to you, that you could be the one to hold the sea within your thrall? #%^@$ish man, and arrogant; this path will end in pain, for I will drown you in an ocean deeper than your pride… …and yet, begrudging admiration flowers in my mind, for with your life you paid the price of following your dream... If thats the whole poem than thats not the one. |
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Post by pashingflower on Dec 23, 2003 11:29:41 GMT -5
hmmmmm. well i assume you have googled for it or something. i had this saved from ages ago, but i am sure someone found this one online and gave it to me. i will try some searches for you and ask some poetry buff friends  *pashdances outta here* |
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Post by Armstrong on Dec 23, 2003 13:20:39 GMT -5
I alreadly googled; no luck!
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Post by Ohio on Dec 23, 2003 14:29:08 GMT -5
Maybe same thing by different name, maybe not.
King Canute and His Nobles
CANUTE was by his nobles taught to fancy,
That, by a kind of royal necromancy,
He had the power Old Ocean to control.
Down rushed the royal Dane upon the strand,
And issued, like a Solomon, command, --
Pour soul.
"Go back, ye waves, you blustering rogues," quoth he;
"Touch not your lord and master, Sea;
For by my power almighty, if you do -- "
Then, staring vengeance, out he held a stick,
Vowing to drive Old Ocean to Old Nick,
Should he even wet the latchet of his shoe.
The Sea retired, -- the monarch fierce rushed on,
And looked as if he'd drive him from the land;
But Sea, not caring to be put upon,
Made for the moment a bold stand:
Not only made a stand did Mr. Ocean,
But to his honest waves he made a motion,
And bid them give the king a hearty trimming.
The orders seemed a deal the waves to tickle,
For soon they put his majesty in pickle,
And sat his royalties, like geese, a swimming.
All hands aloft, with one tremendous roar,
Sound did they make him wish himself on shore;
His head and ears most handsomely they doused, --
Just like a porpoise, with one general shout,
The waves so tumbled the poor king about, --
No anabaptist e'er was half so soused.
At length to land he crawled, a half-drowned thing,
Indeed more like a crab than like a king,
And found his courtiers making rueful faces:
But what said Canute to the lords and gentry,
Who hailed him from the water, on his entry,
All trembling for their lives or places?
"My lords and gentlemen, by your advice,
I've had with Mr. Sea a pretty bustle;
My treatment from my foe not over nice,
Just made a jest for every shrimp and muscle:
A pretty trick for one of my dominion! --
My lords, I thank you for your great opinion.
You'll tell me, p'rhaps, I've only lost one game,
And bid me try another -- for the rubber;
Permit me to inform you all, with shame,
That you're a set of knaves, and I'm a lubber."
John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar")
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Post by Webagent007 on Dec 23, 2003 14:35:49 GMT -5
all I can find is "Canute commanding the tide" it is poetry though but a more a book/legend to me www.inspirationalstories.com/0/91.htmlthe story of King Canute the Great of the English Danelaw who, in the early 11th Century, was said to have sat in his throne by the sea-shore and commanded the tide not to roll in. Canute had learned that his flattering courtiers claimed that he was so great that he could command the tides of the sea to go back. He conducted the exercise to prove that he could not. Today, we see many analysts and journalists commanding the tide to turn back. Canute said: “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey.” |
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Post by purebulldog1 on Feb 20, 2004 3:51:10 GMT -5
JJ is it like a biblical poem
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Post by †Đeådwa†cђer† on Feb 20, 2004 15:05:35 GMT -5
I read Hamlet. Is very Good Drama from Shakespeare. All People die in this sad Anecdote.  ***To be or not to Be....... ® |
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Post by nita on Mar 5, 2004 19:55:06 GMT -5
JJ, leaved a post here and tell me more about what you remember about the poem.. like romantic, biblical, child poem, nature..
ect.
Anyting you remember in particular?
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Post by tulip on May 6, 2004 11:00:20 GMT -5
sooooooooooo, nita this is where u have been!!
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Post by Yahoo on May 9, 2004 17:51:54 GMT -5
hiya tulip! |
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