tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782908.post7960445519014106678..comments2023-04-07T05:07:38.187-05:00Comments on WoolGathering: I Meant To Do My Work TodayJulie McC.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362820630984217093noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782908.post-86925643518902615932012-06-18T09:09:24.220-05:002012-06-18T09:09:24.220-05:00What, you don't think screwing up your knittin...What, you don't think screwing up your knitting on a grey day is on the same level as "Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves and desperately are dead"? <br /><br />Well, I guess you could have point.Julie McC.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02362820630984217093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782908.post-49381336285738497042012-06-17T23:37:36.850-05:002012-06-17T23:37:36.850-05:00I really don't think that's what Shakespea...I <i>really</i> don't think that's what Shakespeare meant by "All's cheerless, dark and deadly"! Great poem though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782908.post-71894524564305240022010-11-03T20:54:08.560-05:002010-11-03T20:54:08.560-05:00To Anonymous #1:
Elton John not only capitalized ...To Anonymous #1:<br /><br />Elton John not only capitalized on Le Gallienne's lovely little poem <i>I Meant to Do My Work Today</i> but also gilded the lily in tacking on underwhelming if not maudlin stanzas. Thereupon, the ego-bound songster Sir Elton (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight) embraced the creation as if it were his own. A knight of the realm, indeed! The prolific poet and prose writer Richard Le Gallienne, native of Liverpool-England, was born in 1886 and died the year that Elton John was hatched, i.e., 1947. The irony is not lost. <br /><br />La Gallienne's original precisely wrought work was recalled correctly by our much admired Wool Gatherer. <br /> <br /><b>I Meant To Do My Work Today</b><br /><br />I meant to do my work today--<br />But a brown bird sang in the apple-tree, <br />And a butterfly flitted across the field,<br />And all the leaves were calling me.<br /><br />And the wind went sighing over the land,<br />Tossing the grasses to and fro,<br />And a rainbow held out its shining hand--<br />So what could I do but laugh and go?<br /><br />Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32782908.post-89718605658930027642007-08-29T06:31:00.000-05:002007-08-29T06:31:00.000-05:00Did you know there's another (middle) verse to you...Did you know there's another (middle) verse to your poem "I meant to do my work today"?<BR/><BR/>And the buttercups nodded their shining heads<BR/>Greeting the bees who came to call<BR/>And I asked the lizard the time of day<BR/>As he sunned himself on a moss-grown wall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com