leaves hang trembling

Who has seen the wind?

by Christina Rossetti

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Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through.

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Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.

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Caroline Kennedy put together a book, The "Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis". These poems were taken from the selected poems. She suggested that one of the greatest gifts she received from her mother was her love of literature and language. She adds, as she defends this claim, saying "sometimes knowing that someone else liked a certain poem can cause us to take another look at it, puzzle over why they might have liked it, and before we know it be captivated by it ourselves.

I found these of more interest today. The week has had its "wind" and "heads have been bowed".

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Thoughts

by Jacqueline Bouvier

I love the Autumn

And yet I cannot say

All the thoughts and things

That make one feel this way.

I love walking on the angry shore,

To watch the angry sea;

Where summer people were before,

But now there's only me.

I love wood fires at night

That have a ruddy glow.

I stare at the flames

And think of long ago.

I love the feeling down inside me

That says to run away

To come and be a gypsy

And laugh the gypsy way.

The tangy taste of apples

The snowy mist at morn,

The wanderlust inside you

When you hear the huntsman's horn.