{"id":1336,"date":"2017-04-11T17:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/adult_services\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:19:31","slug":"staff-picks-popular-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/adult_services\/2017\/staff-picks-popular-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Popular Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hope<\/a><\/p>\n

For National Poetry Month we’re sharing some of our favorite poems and poets with you. When we asked Pasadena Public Library staff what their favorite poems were, there were some poets whose poems kept getting recommended by many different people. Here are poets who had more than one poem recommended by different library staff. Enjoy a sample of their work and then check out a book of their poems from the library to try some of the other recommended works.<\/p>\n

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E. E. Cummings<\/strong><\/p>\n

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
\nmy heart) i am never without it (anywhere
\ni go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
\nby only me is your doing, my darling)
\ni fear
\nno fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
\nno world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
\nand it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
\nand whatever a sun will always sing is you<\/p>\n

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
\n(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
\nand the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
\nhigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
\nand this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart<\/p>\n

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Complete<\/a>Complete Poems, 1904-1962<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by\u00a0E.E. Cummings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also try “in Just-” and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” from Cummings.<\/p>\n

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Lodged by Robert Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rain to the wind said,
\n‘You push and I’ll pelt.’
\nThey so smote the garden bed
\nThat the flowers actually knelt,
\nAnd lay lodged–though not dead.
\nI know how the flowers felt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/a>The Poetry of Robert Frost<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Robert Frost<\/p>\n

Also try “The Road Not Taken” from Frost.<\/p>\n

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Observation by Dorothy Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t drive around the park,
\nI\u2019m pretty sure to make my mark.
\nIf I\u2019m in bed each night by ten,
\nI may get back my looks again,
\nIf I abstain from fun and such,
\nI\u2019ll probably amount to much,
\nBut I shall stay the way I am,
\nBecause I do not give a damn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Complete<\/a>Complete Poems<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by\u00a0Dorothy Parker<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also try “One Perfect Rose” from Parker.<\/p>\n

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A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take this kiss upon the brow!
\nAnd, in parting from you now,
\nThus much let me avow:
\nYou are not wrong who deem
\nThat my days have been a dream;
\nYet if hope has flown away
\nIn a night, or in a day,
\nIn a vision, or in none,
\nIs it therefore the less gone?
\nAll that we see or seem
\nIs but a dream within a dream.<\/p>\n

I stand amid the roar
\nOf a surf-tormented shore,
\nAnd I hold within my hand
\nGrains of the golden sand–
\nHow few! yet how they creep
\nThrough my fingers to the deep,
\nWhile I weep–while I weep!
\nO God! can I not grasp
\nThem with a tighter clasp?
\nO God! can I not save
\nOne from the pitiless wave?
\nIs all that we see or seem
\nBut a dream within a dream?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Complete<\/a>Complete Poems<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also try “Annabel Lee” from Poe.<\/p>\n

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When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
\nAnd nodding by the fire, take down this book,
\nAnd slowly read, and dream of the soft look,
\nYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;<\/p>\n

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
\nAnd loved your beauty with love false or true,
\nBut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
\nAnd loved the sorrows of your changing face;<\/p>\n

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
\nMurmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
\nAnd paced upon the mountains overhead
\nAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by W. B. Yeats<\/p>\n

Also try “The Stolen Child”, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, and “The Song of Wandering Aengus” from Yeats.<\/p>\n

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