Poem of the Week: Poetry

by Edmund Vance Cooke

In the week I start the Poetry module of my MA, I thought this was an appropriate choice.

To deftly do what many dimly think;
     To fund a feeling for the world to borrow;
To turn a tear to printer's ink;
     To make a sonnet of a sorrow.

Edmund Vance Cooke lived between 1866 and 1932. For a bit more info and some more of his work, look to Representative Poetry Online. (He doesn't have a Wikipedia entry! Shocking, I know.)