I got the following e-mail last night. I don't know the answer, nor why Lily's post wasn't accepted. If someone could tell me the answer to the latter, I will pass it on to Lily or put them in touch with her. I've advised her that her query is now on Lost Quotes

Hello,
I saw you posted a lot at this forum so decided to contact you. I tried to join to ask a question but it said my Email was not a valid one.

Any way can you answer my question? In the movie Sense and Senseablitly....At near the end of the movie The colonal is reading to Maryanne. What was the poem he was reading to her.......

It's something about All is not lost that is sought..this is not verbatim......But it's driving me crazy...If you can help thank you very much.......

Lily

we know about the email problem. It still has to be solved. But she can post here without logging in, no problem. She just won't be able to see her settings.

From the Trivia on IMDB:
# The Shakespeare sonnet quoted through the film is sonnet #116.

# Other poems quoted in the film: "The Castaway" by William Cowper, a sonnet by Hartley Coleridge and a bit (Book V canto ii verse 39) of Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene".

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I'm not sure this is the right part, but it looks like it: (there were no numbers in the text I found: [darkwing.uoregon.edu]

Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"

Of things vnseene how canst thou deeme aright,
Then answered the righteous Artegall,
Sith thou misdeem'st so much of things in sight?
What though the sea with waues continuall
Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all:
Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought,
For whatsoeuer from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide vnto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Lily replied to my e-mail telling her I'd posted this, by saying she's tried to join e-mule twice now, and gets a message saying her e-mail address isn't valid. Does the site not accept aol addresses? I know a lot of spam filters rule them out and you have to arrange to let specific ones through. I'd e-mail Les or Desi direct, with Lily's e-mail address but can never work out how you do that via e-mule, though people quite often do it to me.

HELP!!!

Marian, the question sounds familiar, but in case it is a new post here is a list of many movie poems: [72.14.203.104]


and here is the poem:

For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto another brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

--Edmund Spenser, V. II. xxxix. 4-8 The Faerie Queene



Sonnet VII
By Hartley Coleridge

Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No.
It is immortal as immaculate Truth,
'Tis not a blossom shed as soon as youth,
Drops from the stem of life--for it will grow,
In barren regions, where no waters flow,
Nor rays of promise cheats the pensive gloom.
A darkling fire, faint hovering o'er a tomb,
That but itself and darkness nought doth show,
It is my love's being yet it cannot die,
Nor will it change, though all be changed beside;
Though fairest beauty be no longer fair,
Though vows be false, and faith itself deny,
Though sharp enjoyment be a suicide,
And hope a spectre in a ruin bare.

Les



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2022 01:32PM by lg.

"by saying she's tried to join e-mule twice now"
it's not her email address. It's not working for anyone!!! But she can just add her name in the box below, and post. Like I'm doing now.

So, don't add any email!

Thanks Les and Desi - I don't understand the e-mail thing (being a bear of no brain at all when it comes to technicalities - I have a husband for that, but he isn't here), but I hope Lily might!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2022 02:14AM by marian2.

Thank You everyone for your answers, The Faerie Queen, Never would have thought of that poem......Also thank you for the sonnet by Coleridge....

You guys are great. A real special thank you to Marian2 for answeing and helping....ans for not thinking I was spam....

Lily

So far, the spam robots haven't showed much interest in classic poetry! When they're up to that level, I will mind the spamming a lot less! ;-)


Glad we could help.