April is National Poetry Month, and so today I had the impulse to share ten poems I’ve read that have stayed with me, whether I’ve copied quotations from them, or jotted them in my personal lists of favorite poetry, or had certain lines ingrain themselves in my memory. Ten different authors; different subjects; different styles; each leaving an impression in its own way:
“The Elixir” by George Herbert
“The Bargain” by Sir Philip Sidney
“Song of the Settlers” by Jessamyn West
“Doors of Daring” by Henry van Dyke
“To the Supreme Being” by Michelangelo Buonarrotti (tr. William Wordsworth)
“Home” by William Alexander Percy
“The Anvil” by John Clifford
“Consider the Lilies of the Field” by Christina Rossetti
“Carillon” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I Sit Beside the Fire and Think” by J.R.R. Tolkien