Curling up with a book by the fire or in the sun is one of my favorite activities in the world. Following is a selection of beloved poets and poems. Admittedly, reading from a computer screen leaves something to be desired, but snuggle up in a blanket, imagine yourself elsewhere, and read on....



POETS:

Emily Dickinson

Poem 249
Poem 986

Robert Frost

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
A Late Walk
Into My Own

Edward Lear

There Was an Old Man with a Beard
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

W.S. Merwin

Sight
For the Departure of a Stepson
Coming to the Morning
Travelling Together

Ogden Nash

Arthur
The Cow

Dorothy Parker

Unfortunate Coincidence
One Perfect Rose

Christina Rosetti

In an Artist's Studio
A Birthday

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Hyacinth
To a Young Poet
To One Who Might Have Borne a Message
from Epitaph for the Race of Man , Sonnet VII
Sonnet XL
The True Encounter
God's World

Wallace Stevens

Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

William Carlos Williams

This Is Just to Say
The Red Wheelbarrow
Poem

William Wordsworth

She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
The Daffodils
My Heart Leaps Up

Literary Love Letters

To Maggie Tulliver from Philip Wakem. The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot


Return to my planet.