From nauplion@charm.net Tue Mar 7 13:57:50 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA56136 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:57:50 -0800 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA16272 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:57:49 -0800 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-194.charm.net [209.143.116.194]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21062 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:57:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C57B03.E55B6484@charm.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:56:24 -0500 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "classics@u.washington.edu" Subject: Beautiful Language Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since I discovered poetry when I was 7, I have debated among most of the lines of "Annabel Lee" for "most beautiful" -- a poem which, I admit, is not awfully sophisticated, not to mention woefully short of classical content. But for sheer melody: "And through all the night tide I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my wife and my bride . . ." OK. That may be 2 lines. Also inclining to corn. All the poetry is packed up to make way for the painters who failed to show today. "The Highwayman" has some pretty great lines, too. Diana Wright -- It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that he tolerates their existence. Samuel Butler .