Book meme! Day 16

I am slipping so far behind!  But I think this is the most I've written for LJ in a couple of years, so I'll take it as a small victory.

Day 16 - Favorite poem or collection of poetry

My favorite poem is probably the Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet that starts "Love is not all"
I'm ridiculously fond of Byron, too, especially the end of the stanzas on Braganza, which I wrote out in execrable illuminated Chancery cursive on the inside of my bedroom door in high school.
Kipling can make me shiver when he's not being insane, and I think that The Sack of the Gods is one of the best and most charming things he wrote...that's the other one I had bits of on my bedroom wall, in gold elaborate letters over the molding.  I loved Tennyson's "Ring Out Wild Bells" (which might be from In Memoriam?) for a long time.

Ogden Nash has a bunch of absolutely fabulous stuff, and the ones he does about money, voting, etc are cutting and incisive.

Elizabeth Bishop's One Art is fabulous.

My favorite single volume of poetry (as a complete volume) is Jennifer Michael Hecht's The Next Ancient World, I think my current favorite poem by her may be
There's a chapbook about Mockingbirds whose author escapes me (and it's packed up for my soon-to-be-finished move) but that I love immoderately.
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