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Originally Posted by jobee
What is your favourite poem AND artist?
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There are many writers that I have amongst a list of favourites and indeed, some of my teddy collection are thus named after them. Tennyson, Stephenson, Byron, Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Without a doubt Robert Louis Stephenson is probably my favourite. As a child who loved poetry I was a regular attender at Sunday School. One year I was given, for my attendance record, a book entitled "A Child's Garden of Verses". The poem that stood out for me was entitled "Travel"...
I should like to rise and go
Where the golden apples grow;--
Where below another sky
Parrot islands anchored lie.....
This painted the most amazing pictures in the mind of a child and of course fueled the dreamy imagination that lies within. Without a doubt he has to be my favourite poet.
As a contrast, though I realize you didn't ask for that, Dr Seuss was very much a childhood favourite. He not only wrote in rhyme form which you could read superficially but there were lessons contained within as well.