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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-07-10 04:02 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/7/10
Sonnet 69

Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues that give thee so thine own
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds;
Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.

--William Shakespeare
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 01:13 PM
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1. Kick.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 06:55 PM
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2. kick
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:05 PM
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3. Hey, LeftishBrit.
I thought you'd drifted to another website, but here you are.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 04:46 PM
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4. No, still here....I also now belong to a new British site '38Degrees'; but still very much on DU!
I'm not on the Lounge much, but I really like the poetry threads.
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