Rock Me to Sleep – Recommended Poem
BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;
Rock me to sleep, mother,—rock me to sleep!
Nothing – Recommended Poem
Nothing is but nothing
something it is not
nil plus nil is nothing
nothing’s what I got.
There Will Come Soft Rains – Recommended Poem
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
Six Honest Serving Men – Recommended Poem
I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
January – Recommended Poem
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
Of death!