Reading Poetry Out Loud

I had a lovely experience with a poem this morning. I dusted off Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and found the famous one about "The Swing" and his words put my mind in motion. Then I read one called "From a Railway Carriage" and I laughed out loud with joy which is something of a rarity (from poetry anyway.) His words are a train in motion flying past the scenery. I will Google a link....wait, here it is. Magic. http://www.bartleby.com/188/138.html

Maybe this poem is widely known, but I for one don't remember hearing a lot of poetry when I was young. I still have a set of books with verse, but it's the pictures I recall more than the words. I've been in a train, and I was again this morning as I read. I wonder how many of my students will hear the poem and be transported to a seat in one when they read it.....