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[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

Hi! *waves* I'm slightly new I suppose. I haven't posted anything yet, but I've been a stalker for quite sometime. I'm working on a fic, and i need some help. At one point in my story I would like Jeeves to recite a poem to Bertie. But not just any poem, it has to be their poem. You know what I mean? I've been looking for quite some time but haven't had any luck, so I figured I would ask this lovely comm. Soo... Lovely Comm... What do you think their poem is?

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[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'd written a whole reply and LJ swallowed it. Basically came down to "I'll be dashed if I know".

Hm, good question, though. Now I'll be contemplating that.

:) Oh, and welcome.

:D

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Jeeves seems to have a particular liking for Longfellow, Burns and Shakespeare (above say, the Romantics or Tennyson) ,though, if that's any help. I'd lean toward a Shakespearean sonnet (though I might be completely predictable here).

*ponders some more*

[thymeth.livejournal.com]

Anything by A.E.Housman.
Or Byron.
Or what about Catullus: 'Suns can set and rise again: when our brief light / is gone we sleep the sleep of perpetual night. / Give me a thousand kisses, and then a hundred more, / and then another thousand, and add five score." It was written for a woman though...

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

agg! I hate it when LJ does that. *shakes fist at LJ angrily*

*feels all welcomed :D)

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

Merci madamoiselle. I've read alot of Shakespears sonnets and none have really fit. But I haven't read them all so I shan't lose hope! Thanks for the other poets as well. Now I have a direction to search in and not just a vague notion. yay for direction!

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

De rien. Heh, I'm much more unversed in Shakespeare than I'd ever comfortably admit to, but yay for direction indeed :D

And I have to say, you have the BEST icons. *pets them*

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Not a clue... but yay for your Douglas Adams icon! *L*!

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

that's cool, thanks. I've never heard of Houseman before, and i like him.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare, Sonnet 20, "master mistress of my passion." All about how the beloved is pretty like a woman, but so much better, since he's not so cruel and fickle.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

There's a similar one addressed to a boy. It's kind of short, though.

If I were allowed to kiss your sweet eyes, Iuventius,
I would even up to three thousand kisses
Nor would I seem to be satisfied then.
Not even if our crop of kissing
Were more dense than sheaves of wheat.


....odd metaphor in the end there. Anyway. It's a thought.

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

I quite like Sonnet 17 from Shakespeare - I find it less fluffy than Sonnet 18.

What about a Greek poet?

[dryadwoman.livejournal.com]

OMG icon love!

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

thanks. :D

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

gracias.

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

it paints a picture though, you gotta give it that. :) That one's good, thanks.

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

I gotta write these things down, I'm getting alot more suggestions than I tought I would! :D

I don't really know any Greek poets. Do you have any suggestions?

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

thank you. :) My icons like to be petted. They appreciate it very much. :D

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

"All women shall adore us, and some men;
And since at such times, miracles are sought,
I would have that age by this paper taught
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought."

Just kidding. Way too meta.

Hello all. *waves, especially back in amaya's direction* Delurking because...well, Jeeves quoting poetry. They can hear me squeeing two towns over. Ahem. *steps onto soapbox* It sort of depends on the mood you want. If I weren't sure Jeeves would disapprove of free verse, I'd say e. e. cummings:

"--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis."

You could go with "O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast":

"Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise,
If thou wert there, if thou wert there."

based on his demonstrated fondness for Burns, although the dialect might add an inadvertent note of comedy.

I think my vote goes to Andrew Marvell, "The Definition of Love":

"For Fate with jealous eye doth see
Two perfect loves; nor lets them close:
Their union would her ruin be
And her tyrannic power depose.

And therefore her decrees of steel
Us as the distant poles have placed,
(Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel)
Not by themselves to be embraced"

And there we have the complaint about how hard it is to slash characters in such an innocent universe. ;) Plus the poem actually is (critics think) a meditation on homosexual love in an intolerant world.

"...As line, so loves oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet:
But ours, so truly parallel,
Though infinite can never meet."

Although all this metaphysical stuff might just confuse Bertie. Hm. *subsides, a little embarrassed at the length of her first comment here, and wanders off to look through her anthologies*

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

*is found out* Um, nope! But you could maybe Google 'Greek poetry' and see what comes up.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Credit xnitzax, if you take it.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

In the interest of full disclosure, though, Catullus is sort of a 'naughty' poet. I learned all of my Latin obscenities from him.

Not that this necessarily precludes Jeeves from having a fancy for Catullus, but I'm just mentioning in case it matters ^_~

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

whoops. lol. i will do. :D

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

hee hee. naughty... >:)

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

Don't be embarrassed. Please, you've given me so much help, and some great frickin' poems. To be quite honest, i think i love you. *hands you roses*

I'm really liking the andrew marvell. alot. I might keep that one for myself. :) I don't think the metaphysical stuff would confuse Bertie... well... maybe at first. But Jeeves would explain it and then it'd be all good. :)

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

I think a good place to start would be with the Uranian poets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranian_poetry)

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

I love you, too. *cuddles roses to chest*

Which makes a nice change from my constant crushes on (usually British, usually gay, usually either long-deceased or entirely fictional) unattainable men. I'm sure no one else here can relate.

That being said, Andrew Marvell is so my boyfriend. I am His Coy Mistress. Don't try to tell me I'm not. You can find the rest of that poem here: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/definition.htm

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

I Love that I asked this here. I'm learning about so many more poets and i'm really excited about this. Thanks, i'll check them out.

[amaya-kumiko.livejournal.com]

lol. I know what you mean. The majority of my crushes are on unattainable men also.

thanks for the link to the full version. *huggles you*