Another literary interlude: April is Poetry Month

[thatcrazycajun]

As one of my favorite redheads, tigerbright, has informed me that this is Poetry Month, once again I endeavor to bring more couth and culture to my readership and give insight into what passes for the mind of TCC. This is another batch of poems, some of which I encountered first as a wee tyke, in a bound collection bought for us kids by Daddy and Mama from Golden Books.

• This page has both Robert Southey's original poem, "The Old Man's Comforts (and How He Gained Them)," and a link to Lewis Carroll's much-better-known parody of same, "Father William."
  
  
• Another one from the same volume is Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy," which Bartleby.com has kindly posted for your perusal here. (Can you tell I felt way out of place as a kid?)
  
  
• And if you've the time and inclination for a really long read, allow me a moment of home-state pride to point you toward Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Pour votre plaisir, mes amis. (This one I didn't get to read until junior high, along with Hiawatha by the same author.)
  

Enjoy!