The Golden Treasury of Poetry

This is a book to grow on.

It is also a book to grow with.

In these pages are poems that will become favorites;

you will never lose your taste for them.

They will be part of you as long as you live.

These verses- the nimble and the nonsensical

as well as the greatly meaningful-

delighted me when I was young.

They still delight me today.

You will laugh at some of these poems;

you will learn from others.

Some of them will be exciting new experiences;

some will let you see familiar things

as though you had never seen them before.

But all of them

were meant primarily to be enjoyed.