From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-25:
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides
I sailed all night--till at last, with my black beard,
My furs and my dogs, I stood at the northern pole.-- Randall Jarrell, from the poem 90 North.
(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)