Poetry please

[SIMONGR]

As it's National Poetry Day next Thursday (5 October), anyone want to share their favourite poems?

[sgs]

Find out more about National Poetry Day 2001 at article 1913

[siggy]

'Auguries of Innocence' by William Blake springs to mind. I won't pretend I get all of it, but what I do get does it for me. And, at the other end of the spectrum, 'Queen Victoria' by Leonard Cohen - yes, the same - although I admit my appreciation is influenced by how much I like the version he put to music.

[incitatus]

Curl up and diet, by Ogden Nash; "Some women smoke too much, and some women drink too much and some women say too much, but all women think that they weigh too much......"