Poetry meme

[taelle]

Ignored for a long time but finally taken from sollersuk:

When you see this, post a poem.What's in your mind, my dove, my coney

Comments

[fajrdrako]

I like it very much. I thought my favourite line was "Stand on the brink of the warm white day" until I got to the last line.

[taelle]

Auden's my favourite poet, I think.

Auden

[fajrdrako]

He's certainly one of my favourites, but I can never quite pin down who my absoute favourite is. Perhaps it changes with my mood, or according to what I've been reading lately. T.S. Eliot? Donne? e.e. cumming? Catullus? Shakespeare? How does one decide?