Songs, Quotes & Poems

[Laurenv]

I recently watch an old episode - the one where Donald Fisher and Marilyn get married. Donald recites a poem that is kid of narrated over the music. I can't find it anywhere and deleted the episode! Does anyone know what this poem is called??

[Dan F]

'She Walks in Beauty' by Lord Byron:

She walks in beauty like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies,

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to the tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One ray the more, one shade the less

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress

Or softly lightens o'er her face,

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek and o'er that brow

So soft, so calm yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow

But tell of days in goodness spent

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent.

And just for the sake of adding it as it's a nice piece, Don also recited the following in his head as Judith departed in 2000, but this was written by scriptwriters for the episode:

Ships crossing the bar at twilight

Half lit trains on October platforms

Silent wings brushing in April flight

Whispers heard in the dew cradled morn

Words that died in halting breath

Lives unlived for lack of care

Saying I love you was too hard a comfort

Saying goodbye was too hard to bear

[Light of the Bay]

'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley:

OUT of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

Don recites this poem to his last class at Summer Bay High.