Formatting poetry in blogger

The first poem I typed in "compose" view.  The second I used this code in the "HTML View"

<pre style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">[text of poem]<pre> 

November 14

In the low forties and clear.

My wife and I walk the cold road

in silence, asking for thirty more years.

There's a pink and blue sunrise

with an accent of red:

a hunter's cap burns like a coal

in the yellow-gray eye of the woods.

November 14

In the low forties and clear.


My wife and I walk the cold road
in silence, asking for thirty more years.

There's a pink and blue sunrise
with an accent of red:
a hunter's cap burns like a coal
in the yellow-gray eye of the woods.