Excerpt: Jackie O's Poems

— -- The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have been selected by someone who should know: Caroline Kennedy. What follows is a poem from the book, written by her mother.

Thoughts, by Jacqueline Bouvier

I love the Autumn,And yet I cannot sayAll the thoughts and thingsThat make one 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 nightThat have a ruddy glow.I stare at the flamesAnd think of long ago.

I love the feeling down inside meThat says to run awayTo come and be a gypsyAnd laugh the gypsy way.

The tangy taste of apples,The snowy mist at morn,The wanderlust inside youWhen you hear the huntsman's horn.

Nostalgia - that's the Autumn,Dreaming through SeptemberJust a million lovely thingsI always will remember.

-1943

Excerpted from THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, Selected and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy, Copyright (c) 2001 by Caroline Kennedy, Reprinted by arrangement with Hyperion