legoline
03 April 2010 @ 11:55 pm
"Tiger! Tiger!"  
[livejournal.com profile] morelindo made me aware it's poetry month again. I love having an excuse to post poems. Here's one I read the other night, and which I loved a lot.


"Tiger! Tiger!"

What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
What of the quarry ye went to kill?
Brother, he crops in the jungle still.
Where is the power that made your pride?
Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
Brother, I go to my lair -- to die.

--Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

 
 
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