When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise or set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
The poem is called "Song," and I read it in my copy of "England's Best Loved Poems," which I bought in Oxford, England. (How cool is that?)
I get in these little poem ruts where I just feel like poetry. I love Longfellow's poems and his play "The Spanish Student," which always makes me laugh. I love "God's Grandeur" by Gerald Manley Hopkins. I memorized "She walks in beauty" just by reading it so many times. :)
You don't have to read poetry all the time to be a poetry lover. You just have to savor it when you do. You don't have to smell every flower to love flowers, you just have to enjoy the ones you smell.
Do you love poetry? If so, what's a poem you love?