Lauren's+Favorite+Poems

When I was one, I had just begun. When I was two, I was nearly new. When I was three, I was hardly me. When I was four, I was not much more. When I was five, I was just alive. But now I am six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now and forever. ~ A.A. Milne You’ve seen balloons set, haven’t you? <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">So stately they ascend <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">It is as swans discarded you <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">For duties diamond <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Their liquid feet go softly out <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Upon a sea of blond; <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">They spurn the air as’t were to mean <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">For creatures so renowned <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Their ribbons just beyond the eye <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">They struggle some for breath <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And yet the crowd applauds below; <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">They would not encore death <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The gilded creature strains and spins <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Trips frantic in a tree <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Tears open her imperial veins <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And tumbles in the sea <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The crowd retire with an oath <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The dust in streets goes down, <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And clerks in counting rooms observe, <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">“’Twas only a balloon” <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">~ Emily Dickinson <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Whose woods these are I think I know. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">His house is in the village though; <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">He will not see me stopping here <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">To watch his woods fill up with snow. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">My little horse must think it queer <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">To stop without a farmhouse near <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Between the woods and frozen lake <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The darkest evening of the year. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">He gives his harness bells a shake <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">To ask if there is some mistake. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The only other sound's the sweep <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Of easy wind and downy flake. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The woods are lovely, dark and deep. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">But I have promises to keep, <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And miles to go before I sleep, <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And miles to go before I sleep. <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">~ Robert Frost