And "The Gatekeepers" shows the toll it takes on the people themselves.

Keep "hpilly." Serendipity.

Movie, not TV; but I'm astonished nobody has mentioned "Dead of Night."

"Oh yeah? That's what you think!"

I hope Mr. Anthony heals quickly.

"JosephFinn": "Gilead."

And "No Life of Their Own"! And a "the People" story from Zenna Henderson! It's in my lap right now.

"Oh Danny Boy
Oh boy oh boy
Oh Danny . . . "

Yes, Satan is _not_ the hero of Paradise Lost.

"The Night of the Hunter."

His widow told all.

"On window panes, the icy frost/ Leaves feathered patterns, crissed and crossed . . ."

My.

Edwin Morgan's "Strawberries." Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." "A Lyke-Wake Dirge." Billy Collins's "Another Reason I Don't Keep A Gun In The House." Milton's "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint." Countless medieval English poems. There are many many.

"Say I'm weary, say I'm old,/ Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,/ Say I've had an awful cold/ Since Jenny kiss'd me."

Your biographical comment seems like an obituary I read in my dreams: "He came to Chicago to work in the mines."

And more serious ones, "The Buses Headed For Scranton Travel in Pairs," "Kipling In Vermont," or his three-stanza lament of human isolation.

But you can tell he's a city-dweller from the way he writes it.

In my poetry group I've regularly taught an hour on song vs. poetry. It's very rare that a great song has wonderful lyrics. Gershwin's "Do Do Do" is baby talk, but it perfectly matches the music. They are different media; that's all.

Which in its turn is a translated, transmuted haiku.