In the timeless classic Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh's meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, solitude, peace, and contentment have enlightened and offered solace to millions of readers. The book strikes a resonant chord with so many because Mrs. Lindbergh is essentially a poet, giving moving and memorable form to the problems that beset the human heart.Wrought with the same restful lyricism and enduring themes that have captivated her prose readers, The Unicorn and Other Poems brings together a representative collection of Mrs. Lindbergh's poetry. Here is her poet's response to the great adventure of life: to love and death, to the joy of flight, to art and nature and the sweep of time. Anne Morrow Lindbergh looks at herself and at the people and things around her with sensitivity, simplicity, and directness. Each experience is distilled to its essence, probed to its depth, and expressed with the grace and elegance for which she is admired the world over. Read Less