I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals I wandered lonely as a cloud I want to tell you something. In cool noon light, on the edge of spring, In moving-slow he has no Peer.
Some people are flower lovers.
Stop looking like a purse. There once was a Willow, and he was very old, They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens. Thou hearest the nightingale begin the song of spring. From the age of seven Ted Hughes lived with his parents in a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire where they had a newsagent's shop. In 1948 he won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge but completed two years' National Service in the RAF before going to University.