My Two favorite Poems....

Brown Penny

I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'

And then, 'I am old enough';

Wherefore I threw a penny

To find out if I might love.

'Go and love, go and love, young man,

If the lady be young and fair.'

Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,

I am looped in the loops of her hair.

O love is the crooked thing,

There is nobody wise enough

To find out all that is in it,

For he would be thinking of love

Till the stars had run away

And the shadows eaten the moon.

Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,

One cannot begin it too soon.

William Butler Yeats

And my 2nd favorite poem

I Cultivate a White Rose

I have a white rose to tend

In July as in January;

I give it to the true friend

Who offers his frank hand to me.

And for the cruel one whose blows

Break the heart by which I live,

Thistle nor thorn do I give:

For him, too, I have a white rose.

Jose Marti

These have been my favorite since I was 10 years old... I had a chance to pull some of my old classic books and have these written on a plain sheet of paper and have carried them from where ever I lived. I wanted to share them you. What are your favorites?