This is a great thread. I have so enjoyed everyone's choices of poetry and some are really moving.
I want to recommend 'Ice House' by Anne Michaels. It is written from the perspective of Kathleen Scott, a sculptor and the wife of Robert Falcon Scott and inspired by the journals that they kept for each other whilst he was in Antarctica. His was discovered after his death and in it he had written 'give this to my wife' and then crossed out wife and put 'widow'. I think it is beautiful and you can read it here http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/d...9&view=excerpt