The favourite poem meme...

[sbisson]

... and my entry has to be Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas:

Yes, I remember Adlestrop--
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop - only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

Comments

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

that's lovely! Never heard of it. Thanks for sharing.

[natalief.livejournal.com]

My most remembered poem I learned at infant school, but I cannot remember who it was written by:

This I remember
I saw from a train -
A shaggy white pony
That stood in the rain.
Where I was going
And where was the train,
I cannot remember,
I cannot explain.
All these years after
It comes back again -
A shaggy white pony
That stood in the rain.

I have googled repeatedly for various lines from the poem, but cannot track down it's origins...