"Just a Million Lovely Things..."

Found this book at a great used book store the other day...






...it detailed the many magical evenings hosted in the Kennedy White House. Simply gorgeous.

I'm sure you remember this book that was out a few years ago; The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Here is one of my favorites from the book:

For A Poet

by Countee Cullen

I have wrapped my dreams in silken cloth,

And laid them away in a box of gold;

Where long will cling the lips of the moth,

I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth;

I hide no hate; I am not even wroth

Who found earth's breath so keen and cold;

I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth,

And laid them away in a box of gold.

Many people do not know that Jacqueline Kennedy herself loved to write.

Here is a poem she wrote in 1943 entitled simply 'Thoughts'.

I love the Autumn,

And yet I cannot say

All the thoughts and things

That make me feel this way.

I love walking on the angry shore,

To watch the angry sea;

Where summer people were before,

But now there's only me.

I love wood fires at night

That have a ruddy glow.

I stare at the flames

And think of long ago.

I love the feeling down inside me

That says to run away

To come and be a gypsy

And laugh the gypsy way.

The tangy taste of apples,

The snowy mist of morn,

The wanderlust inside you

When you hear the huntsman's horn.

Nostalgia - that's the Autumn,

Dreaming through September

Just a million lovely things

I always will remember.