Great Regulars: According to the Harvard Crimson, in

1982, while [Derek] Walcott was teaching as visiting professor in English at the college, a freshman student accused the Nobel laureate of sexual harassment. She reported that during a private discussion session about her poetry, Walcott suddenly announced that he did not want to talk about poetry anymore, and then he asked her, "Would you make love with me?"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Derek Walcott

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The speaker then addresses the church bells telling them that when they ring for the couple's wedding, they will "come to church in time." He is implying that until then they will prefer to spend their time together enjoying on the company of each other, while they happily listen to the bells from afar.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Housman's "Bredon Hill"

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The speaker begins his prayer asking for forgiveness for a sin--the original sin of being born of man and woman. Although he knows he does not remember choosing to be born, he knows that the fact that he is incarnated indicates that he is not soul-perfected: he has karma to burn, he must reap what he has sown. The speaker's sin-consciousness demonstrates that he has made significant progress as a devotee from the days when he was using his wit and charm to seduce a virgin.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: John Donne's "Hymn to God the Father"

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The music helps her remember her first night in the institution when "It was the strangled cold of November;/even the stars were strapped in the sky/and that moon too bright/forking through the bars to stick me/with a singing in the head." She fought incarceration at first and had to be "strapped" down; she remembers seeing the moon shining through the bars on the windows.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: November Poet--Anne Sexton

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The speaker then avers that each personality is attracted to its own particular "pleasure" from which it may take "joy." But for the speaker, none of those mentioned pleases him, and his choice surpasses all the others, even though it is only one simple entity.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 91

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The speaker then acknowledges that still he is as yet only a human being who cannot aver that he "fears no blot." And he offers a rather agnostic nod to his beloved soul suspecting that he might be wrong in his estimate, but if he is, he cannot realize his error.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 92

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Paramahansa Yogananda's "Thy Divine Gypsy" from Songs of the Soul features a speaker who dramatizes the spiritual journey of an ardent worshiper of the Divine who sees the Creator everywhere.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's "Thy Divine Gypsy"

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