Jemima's new poetry season!

I have been getting the taste for poetry, so I thought I would share some favourite pieces with you all. Find your own favourites in the following days.

I care not, fortune what you me deny!
You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face,
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns by living stream at eve,
Let health, my nerves, and finer fibres brace,
And I, their toy, to the great children leave,
Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave!

James Thomson

I hope you enjoyed this opening verse, as much as I did when I first read it. Full of the beauty of freedom, and the joy of the natural world. A wonderfully uplifting first verse.