What poems come to our minds?

[Shawnee123]

Dover Beach
by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; -on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

[1867]

[TheChuck]

The wedding Vows I wrote for my wife and I is what I think of when I think of poems.

My Wife said:
Chuck, you are my best friend, my sounding board, my rock and my strength.
You are my shoulder to cry on, your strong arms lift me higher than I have ever been.
Chuck, I choose you to be my husband and I make just one promise:
To do anything in my God-given power to make you happy the rest of your life, as you have and will do for me.
You are the love of my life, the joy in my heart, the peace in my mind, and the breath in my lungs.
You are the laughter in my voice, the butterflies in my stomach, the smile on my face, and the tears in my eyes.
This day, I devote my life to you, my heart to you, my mind to you and only you. I thank God every day, since the moment I met you, for the wonderful blessing of you.
Charles -- I do. Forever and always.


Then I said:
Becky, All my life, I've waited for you to come into it. All my life I've prayed for you to come into it.
Today, all of my hopes, my prayers, and my dreams come true.
All of this happens today because I fell in love with you.
As you have been by my side through my darkest hours, so will be a light in yours.
As you have cared for me in times of infirmity, so will I keep you sheltered when storms arise.
Becky I choose you to be my wife.
I will love you all my life. You and no other.
I will be your shoulder to cry on.
The rock you stand on.
The staff that you lean on.
And the wings that allow you to fly.
We will travel this journey of life together with the Lord as our guide. With all my being, I pledge my love to you
Rebecca —I do. Forever and always.