There’s a project on Americans reading their favorite poems. I found the one with Rev. Michael Haynes reading Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life” edifying.
I’m not very good at picking favorites, but apart from Psalms 23 and 139, one of my favorites is Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and gazed down one as far as I could to where it turned in the undergrowth.”
What’s your favorite poem?
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I don’t have a favorite poem, but I am exceptionally fond of this:
Jerusalem by William Blake
I especially like it set to music and here is a video:
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
“The Road Not Taken” is a favorite of mine
And, the poem about the pills in Dr. Seuss’ book “You’re Only Old Once”. I say this one every Saturday night when I’m loading up my dad’s pill box for the week. The last lines are my favorite:
“The small brown one is what I take,
If I should die before I wake.”
I love “The Song of Wandering Angus”
by William Butler Yeats
http://maplemountain.blogspot.com/2007/10/fire-was-in-my-head_19.html