CELERY BY OGDEN NASH Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.
POEM – April 14
EXCERPTED FROM THE LADY OF SHALOTT BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darken’d wholly, Turn’d to tower’d Camelot; For ere she reach’d upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The…
POEM – April 13
THE RED WHEELBARROW BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
POEM – April 12
Excerpt from Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we…
POEM – APRIL 11
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY LIKE THE NIGHT BY LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one…