Funeral Blues (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/funeral-blues-2/) by WH Auden (which, yay, someone above said too) and His Coy Mistress (http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm) by Andrew Marvell and its rejoinder (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1568.html) by AD Hope.
(Or okay, really, my favourite poems are song lyrics, but I'm trying to be classy here...)
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Date: 2008-10-02 07:22 pm (UTC)(Or okay, really, my favourite poems are song lyrics, but I'm trying to be classy here...)