potw: the swing
I am so ready for spring. I can’t wait to go to the park with my children and lay in the sunshine reading a book to them over a picnic lunch. I can’t wait. In light of that desire, our poem for the week is all about swinging in the sunshine.
The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside –Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown –
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
I'm Tracy, a mama with big dreams, crazy ideas, loads of laughter, an insatiable desire to learn, and enormous piles of laundry.
Your POTW days remind me of my Mother-in-law. my husband knows so many poems and can even recite a few, and many lines of many because his mom read poetry to them. As I read your book (TJed) I find myself wondering if she didn’t have some idea about what she was doing for her children. They read many classic books together and talked a lot about the founding fathers and read their writings often.
Thanks for the book by the way. I’m really enjoying it and am almost finished.
Memorizing poetry, scriptures, quotes, etc…is such fun! We love it!
The TJED book is so fabulous – I’m glad you are enjoying it. The book called Leadership Education: The Phases of Education is also excellent…perhaps even better because it takes the theory and shows how to put it into practice. You are welcome to borrow it when I you are done with the first one.
What is your favorite poem?