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Episode | Date |
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Ted Kooser's "After Years"
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Apr 25, 2024 |
T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Apr 24, 2024 |
William Shakespeare's "It Was a Lover and His Lass"
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris"
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"
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Apr 19, 2024 |
William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"
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Apr 18, 2024 |
John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
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Apr 16, 2024 |
Wendell Berry's "The Plan"
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"
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Apr 12, 2024 |
Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Elizabeth Jennings' "Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits"
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
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Apr 05, 2024 |
Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"
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Apr 04, 2024 |
George Herbert's "The Church-floore"
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"
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Apr 01, 2024 |
Andrew Marvell's "A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure"
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Mar 30, 2024 |
Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
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Mar 30, 2024 |
Louis Simpson's "American Poetry"
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Mar 27, 2024 |
A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees (Shropshire Lad II)"
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Two by John Robert Lee
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Billy Collins' "Marginalia"
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Mar 22, 2024 |
Ezra Pound's "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Robert Frost's "Out, Out–"
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Poem-Prayers by Robert Herrick
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Two by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
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Mar 18, 2024 |
David Lehman's "The Ides of March"
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Li Po's "The Solitude of Night"
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Mar 14, 2024 |
James Merrill's "The Octopus"
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Hilaire Belloc's "Lines to a Don"
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet's Calendar"
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Traveling Onion"
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Colley Cibber's "The Blind Boy"
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History"
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Mar 06, 2024 |
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On"
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You..?"
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"
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Feb 29, 2024 |
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "Nameless Pain"
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet and His Songs"
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
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Feb 26, 2024 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Three by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Feb 22, 2024 |
W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation..."
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Feb 20, 2024 |
James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Love Song"
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia"
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"
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Feb 14, 2024 |
John Donne's "The Flea"
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Feb 13, 2024 |
William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98 & 99
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Feb 12, 2024 |
William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl"
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Tracy K. Smith's "Solstice"
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Langston Hughes' "Harlem"
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Robert Herrick's "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve"
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Work Without Hope"
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Robert Browning's "Development"
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."
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Jan 30, 2024 |
Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
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Jan 29, 2024 |
John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Dana Gioia's "Entrance"
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"
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Jan 24, 2024 |
John Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
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Jan 23, 2024 |
Christina Rossetti's "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Shakespeare's "Let's talk of graves" from Richard II
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Jan 19, 2024 |
Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Shakespeare's "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers"
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Shakespeare's "Be Absolute For Death"
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Shakespeare's "Prologue" to Henry V
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Carl Sandburg's "Little Word, Little White Bird"
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
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Jan 11, 2024 |
Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The world is a beautiful place"
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Jan 05, 2024 |
William Carlos Williams' "January"
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"
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Jan 04, 2024 |
W. S. Merwin's "To the New Year"
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Jan 02, 2024 |
Robert Burns' "Auld Lang Syne"
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"
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Dec 29, 2023 |
Wendell Berry's "Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer"
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Dorianne Laux's "Family Stories"
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Dec 27, 2023 |
John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas"
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Dec 26, 2023 |
Two Poems for Christmas
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Dec 25, 2023 |
T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"
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Dec 23, 2023 |
Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Ruth Moose's "My Father's Fruitcake"
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"
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Dec 19, 2023 |
G. K. Chesterton's "A Child of the Snows"
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Dec 18, 2023 |
Mark Doty's "Messiah (Christmas Portions)"
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Dec 15, 2023 |
W. H. Auden's "O Tell Me the Truth About Love"
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Three Poems for St. Lucy's Day
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Mary Jo Salter's "Advent"
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Czeslaw Milosz' "Blacksmith Shop"
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Robert Burns' "To a Mouse"
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"
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Dec 04, 2023 |
James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Mary Oliver's "The Mangroves"
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Nov 30, 2023 |
A. E. Stallings' "Denouement"
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Nov 30, 2023 |
William Blake's "Jerusalem"
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Richard Howard's "Oystering"
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Nov 27, 2023 |
William Matthews' "On a Diet"
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Nov 24, 2023 |
Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"
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Nov 23, 2023 |
Two Poems About Butter
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Nov 22, 2023 |
W. S. Gilbert's "National Anthem"
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Allen Tate's "Edges"
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Nov 20, 2023 |
Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"
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Nov 17, 2023 |
Walt Whitman to His Reader
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Nov 16, 2023 |
Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Billy Collins' "Dear Reader"
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"
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Nov 13, 2023 |
John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
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Nov 10, 2023 |
Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"
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Nov 09, 2023 |
Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Two for Guy Fawkes Day
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"
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Nov 03, 2023 |
Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"
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Nov 02, 2023 |
Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"
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Nov 02, 2023 |
Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"
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Nov 01, 2023 |
E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing day"
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"
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Oct 26, 2023 |
The Saint Crispin's Day Speech
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"
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Oct 25, 2023 |
"The Death of Nelson"
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tide Rises, Tide Falls"
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Oct 19, 2023 |
Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"
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Oct 17, 2023 |
Two by Oscar Wilde
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Oct 16, 2023 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"
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Oct 10, 2023 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Tale of Tinuviel"
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Rudyard Kipling's "If"
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"
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Sep 27, 2023 |
T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Thomas Gray's "Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Blaise Cendrars "Menus"
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"
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Sep 14, 2023 |
T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"
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Sep 08, 2023 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Wendell Berry's "September 2"
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"
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Sep 01, 2023 |
Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"
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Aug 28, 2023 |
Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"
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Aug 21, 2023 |
Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
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Aug 11, 2023 |
John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Matthea Harvey's "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden"
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Ted Kooser's "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store"
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Denise Levertov's "Witness"
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Mary Oliver's "Storage"
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Jul 18, 2023 |
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"
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Jul 07, 2023 |
Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"
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Jul 06, 2023 |
Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884
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Jul 06, 2023 |
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
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Jul 04, 2023 |
Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"
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Jun 29, 2023 |
Emily Dickinson's "A Little Dog That Wags Its Tail"
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"
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Jun 28, 2023 |
A. E. Stallings' "Like"
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"
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Jun 18, 2023 |
Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"
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Jun 14, 2023 |
W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"
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Jun 14, 2023 |
W. H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"
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Jun 09, 2023 |
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"
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Jun 08, 2023 |
2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Jun 07, 2023 |
Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs"
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Jun 02, 2023 |
John Masefield's "Sea Fever"
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"
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May 30, 2023 |
3 Poems for Memorial Day
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May 29, 2023 |
Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"
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May 26, 2023 |
John Betjeman's "A Subaltern's Love Song"
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May 25, 2023 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
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May 24, 2023 |
Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"
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May 23, 2023 |
Seamus Heaney's "May"
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May 22, 2023 |
The Daily Poem Is Back!
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May 19, 2023 |
Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
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May 11, 2022 |
Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"
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May 10, 2022 |
William Blake's "A Poison Tree"
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May 07, 2022 |
Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"
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May 02, 2022 |
Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Louise Gluck's "Averno"
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"
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Apr 18, 2022 |
The Dream of the Rood
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Wendy Cope's "The Orange"
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Apr 01, 2022 |
Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"
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Mar 25, 2022 |
Billy Collins' "Today"
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Mar 23, 2022 |
John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"
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Mar 22, 2022 |
James Joyce's "Song"
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Mar 19, 2022 |
Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
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Mar 09, 2022 |
A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"
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Feb 28, 2022 |
W.H. Auden's "Doggerel for a Senior Citizen"
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Feb 24, 2022 |
James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"
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Feb 23, 2022 |
W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban
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Feb 14, 2022 |
Philip Larkin's "The Mower"
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Feb 11, 2022 |
W.H. Auden's "A New Year's Greeting"
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"
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Feb 04, 2022 |
Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"
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Feb 03, 2022 |
Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Lucy Shaw's "Mending"
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
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Jan 31, 2022 |
Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"
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Jan 22, 2022 |
Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"
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Jan 18, 2022 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"
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Dec 31, 2021 |
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
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Dec 30, 2021 |
U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"
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Dec 28, 2021 |
Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"
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Dec 28, 2021 |
William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"
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Dec 21, 2021 |
George Santayana's "Cape Cod"
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Dec 16, 2021 |
From "W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"
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Dec 15, 2021 |
Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence"
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"
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Dec 01, 2021 |
William Blake's "The Garden of Love"
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Nov 30, 2021 |
Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"
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Nov 15, 2021 |
Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"
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Nov 10, 2021 |
Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"
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Nov 08, 2021 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"
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Oct 18, 2021 |
Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"
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Aug 16, 2021 |
William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"
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Aug 05, 2021 |
Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"
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Aug 04, 2021 |
Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"
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Aug 03, 2021 |
John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"
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Jul 23, 2021 |
Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"
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Jul 12, 2021 |
Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"
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Jul 07, 2021 |
John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
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Jul 06, 2021 |
John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"
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Jul 05, 2021 |
Mary Oliver's "The Riders"
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Jul 02, 2021 |
Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"
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Jul 01, 2021 |
T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Amy Lowell's "Bath"
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Jun 28, 2021 |
Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Jane Kenyon's "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer"
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"
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Jun 03, 2021 |
John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"
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Jun 02, 2021 |
Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night Alone"
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"
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May 24, 2021 |
Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
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May 21, 2021 |
Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"
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May 20, 2021 |
Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"
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May 19, 2021 |
W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
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May 19, 2021 |
Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"
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May 17, 2021 |
Ted Kooser's "Mother"
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May 11, 2021 |
Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"
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May 10, 2021 |
Sharon Olds "The Race"
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May 06, 2021 |
John Keats' "After dark vapors"
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May 05, 2021 |
Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"
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May 04, 2021 |
Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"
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May 03, 2021 |
Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"
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Apr 27, 2021 |
William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Terrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"
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Apr 22, 2021 |
Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Grace Schulman's "Because"
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Apr 16, 2021 |
Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"
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Apr 15, 2021 |
Laurie Lee's "April Rise"
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Apr 14, 2021 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"
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Apr 13, 2021 |
A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"
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Apr 12, 2021 |
Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"
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Apr 05, 2021 |
From "The Dream of the Rood"
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Apr 02, 2021 |
The World's Greatest Poem
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Apr 01, 2021 |
A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"
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Mar 31, 2021 |
G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"
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Mar 30, 2021 |
Amy Lowell's "Opal"
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Mar 29, 2021 |
Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"
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Mar 26, 2021 |
e.e. cummings' "in just"
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Mar 25, 2021 |
Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"
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Mar 24, 2021 |
William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"
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Mar 23, 2021 |
R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"
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Mar 23, 2021 |
William Wordsworth's "Written in March"
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Mar 18, 2021 |
2 by Rhina Espaillat
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Brutus' speech from Julius Caesar
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Mar 16, 2021 |
William Vaughn Moody's "A Gray Day"
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Mar 15, 2021 |
John Donne's "The Good 'Morrow"
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"
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Mar 10, 2021 |
Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poem III (1994)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"
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Mar 08, 2021 |
Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"
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Mar 05, 2021 |
H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"
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Mar 02, 2021 |
Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur
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Mar 01, 2021 |
Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"
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Feb 26, 2021 |
James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Philip Larkin's "First Sight"
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Feb 23, 2021 |
W.H. Auden's "Ode to the Medieval Poets"
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Feb 22, 2021 |
Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives after Long Silence"
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Feb 18, 2021 |
James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Kate Baer's "Motherload"
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Feb 16, 2021 |
Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"
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Feb 15, 2021 |
Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"
|
Feb 12, 2021 |
E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond"
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Feb 11, 2021 |
Edward Thomas' "Celandine"
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
|
Feb 09, 2021 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "Roosters"
|
Feb 08, 2021 |
Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"
|
Dec 22, 2020 |
Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"
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Dec 21, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"
|
Dec 19, 2020 |
W.H. Davies' "Winter's Beauty"
|
Dec 17, 2020 |
Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"
|
Dec 16, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night"
|
Dec 15, 2020 |
Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison!
|
Dec 15, 2020 |
Emily Dickinson's Birthday
|
Dec 10, 2020 |
John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"
|
Dec 09, 2020 |
Horace's Ode I.11
|
Dec 08, 2020 |
Jane Kenyon's "Mosaic of the Nativity, Serbia, Winter 1993"
|
Dec 07, 2020 |
Madeleine L'Engle's "The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold"
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Dec 04, 2020 |
Richard Wilbur's "A Black Birch in Winter"
|
Dec 03, 2020 |
Ted Kooser's "December 2"
|
Dec 02, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"
|
Dec 01, 2020 |
Ted Kooser's "A Glint"
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Nov 04, 2020 |
William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"
|
Oct 29, 2020 |
Carl Sandberg's "The Long Shadow of Lincoln - A Litany"
|
Oct 27, 2020 |
Song of Songs: Chapter 8
|
Oct 26, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "1997"
|
Oct 13, 2020 |
2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas
|
Oct 09, 2020 |
Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
|
Oct 08, 2020 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"
|
Oct 07, 2020 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"
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Oct 06, 2020 |
Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"
|
Oct 05, 2020 |
Alice Cary's "Autumn"
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Oct 02, 2020 |
Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
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Oct 01, 2020 |
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"
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Sep 28, 2020 |
Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”
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Sep 23, 2020 |
Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"
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Sep 21, 2020 |
T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"
|
Sep 18, 2020 |
Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"
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Sep 16, 2020 |
Claude McKay's "Subway Winds"
|
Sep 15, 2020 |
Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"
|
Sep 14, 2020 |
Billy Collins' "The Names"
|
Sep 11, 2020 |
Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"
|
Sep 10, 2020 |
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
|
Sep 09, 2020 |
Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"
|
Sep 04, 2020 |
H.D.'s "Helen"
|
Sep 03, 2020 |
Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
|
Sep 02, 2020 |
Hayden Carruth's "Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend"
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Aug 31, 2020 |
Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"
|
Aug 28, 2020 |
Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup"
|
Aug 27, 2020 |
Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"
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Aug 26, 2020 |
Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"
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Aug 26, 2020 |
Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book"
|
Aug 24, 2020 |
Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind"
|
Aug 20, 2020 |
Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc"
|
Aug 19, 2020 |
Billy Collins' "Aristotle"
|
Aug 18, 2020 |
Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox"
|
Aug 17, 2020 |
Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale"
|
Aug 14, 2020 |
Edward Thomas' "Liberty"
|
Aug 12, 2020 |
R. S. Thomas' "I Was Vicar of Large Things"
|
Aug 11, 2020 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream"
|
Aug 10, 2020 |
Shakespeare's "this royal throne of kings" soliloquy
|
Aug 07, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "To My Mother"
|
Aug 05, 2020 |
Rachel Richardson's "Shearwater"
|
Aug 04, 2020 |
Charlotte Turner Smith's "Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clift'd Shore"
|
Aug 03, 2020 |
Franz Wright's "Auto-Lullaby"
|
Jul 31, 2020 |
Lynda Hull's "Insect Life of Florida"
|
Jul 30, 2020 |
Stanley Kunitz' "The Layers"
|
Jul 29, 2020 |
Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"
|
Jul 28, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "early in the year by my friend's gift"
|
Jul 27, 2020 |
Emily Dickinson's "Of Bronze and Blaze"
|
Jul 24, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "The Tuft of Flowers"
|
Jul 23, 2020 |
William Cullen Bryant's "Summer Winds"
|
Jul 22, 2020 |
Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"
|
Jul 21, 2020 |
Malcolm Guite's "The Singing Bowl"
|
Jul 20, 2020 |
Kimberly Johnson's "Big Finish"
|
Jul 17, 2020 |
Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
|
Jul 15, 2020 |
Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"
|
Jul 14, 2020 |
Luci Shaw's "Tenting, Burr Trail, Long Canyon, Escalante"
|
Jul 13, 2020 |
Sarah Teasale's "The Answer"
|
Jul 10, 2020 |
Li-Young Lee "From Blossoms"
|
Jul 09, 2020 |
Stanley Kunitz' "The Long Boat"
|
Jul 08, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "How to Be a Poet"
|
Jul 07, 2020 |
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
|
Jul 06, 2020 |
Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Revere"
|
Jul 03, 2020 |
4 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
|
Jul 02, 2020 |
Walt Whitman's "A July Afternoon by the Pond"
|
Jul 01, 2020 |
Czesław Miłosz's "Ars Poetica"
|
Jun 30, 2020 |
Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats"
|
Jun 29, 2020 |
Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow"
|
Jun 27, 2020 |
Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"
|
Jun 25, 2020 |
Jill Kress Karn's "Holy" and "Unfinished Madonna"
|
Jun 24, 2020 |
Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom"
|
Jun 23, 2020 |
Ted Kooser's "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds"
|
Jun 22, 2020 |
John Clare's "Summer Moods"
|
Jun 19, 2020 |
Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise"
|
Jun 18, 2020 |
"Many Thousand Gone"
|
Jun 17, 2020 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
|
Jun 16, 2020 |
Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer"
|
Jun 12, 2020 |
Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song"
|
Jun 10, 2020 |
Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Children of the Poor"
|
Jun 09, 2020 |
Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"
|
Jun 08, 2020 |
Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks"
|
Jun 05, 2020 |
Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again"
|
Jun 04, 2020 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
|
Jun 03, 2020 |
E. Nesbit's "The Despot"
|
May 28, 2020 |
W.H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"
|
May 27, 2020 |
Andrew Marvell's "The Garden"
|
May 26, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"
|
May 20, 2020 |
Mark Van Doren's "In bitterness of heart I write"
|
May 19, 2020 |
Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
|
May 14, 2020 |
Bayard Taylor "A Night with a Wolf"
|
May 13, 2020 |
Katherine Larson's "Metamorphoses"
|
May 12, 2020 |
Robert Pinsky's "Poem with lines in any order"
|
May 11, 2020 |
John Clare's "The Nightengale's Nest"
|
May 09, 2020 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring"
|
May 07, 2020 |
Ted Kooser's "Abandoned Farmhouse"
|
May 06, 2020 |
Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn"
|
May 05, 2020 |
Seamus Heaney's "The Railway Children"
|
May 01, 2020 |
Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers"
|
Apr 29, 2020 |
William Blake's "The Tyger"
|
Apr 28, 2020 |
R.S Thomas' "90th Birthday"
|
Apr 24, 2020 |
William Carlos Williams' "Spring Storm"
|
Apr 23, 2020 |
Richard Wilbur's "The Reader"
|
Apr 22, 2020 |
Poetry in a Time of Crisis
|
Apr 21, 2020 |
James Matthew Wilson's "Through the Water"
|
Apr 20, 2020 |
Scott Cairns' "Daily Sacrifice"
|
Apr 17, 2020 |
W.H. Davies' "Leisure"
|
Apr 16, 2020 |
Mary Oliver's "This Morning"
|
Apr 15, 2020 |
W.S. Merwin's "Finding a Teacher"
|
Apr 14, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "An Anniversary"
|
Apr 13, 2020 |
A.E. Stallings' "Dyeing the Easter Eggs"
|
Apr 10, 2020 |
Dana Gioia's "Words"
|
Mar 11, 2020 |
W.H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"
|
Mar 10, 2020 |
John Clare's "First Sight of Spring"
|
Mar 09, 2020 |
Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
|
Mar 06, 2020 |
Howard Nemerov's "Learning the Trees"
|
Mar 05, 2020 |
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
|
Mar 03, 2020 |
Richard Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison"
|
Mar 02, 2020 |
Ryan Wilson's "For a Dog"
|
Feb 28, 2020 |
Wendell Berry's "A Purification"
|
Feb 27, 2020 |
Ted Kooser's "Deep Winter"
|
Feb 26, 2020 |
Lisel Mueller's "Monet Refuses the Operation"
|
Feb 25, 2020 |
Mary Oliver's "Gethsemane"
|
Feb 24, 2020 |
William Carlos Williams' "The Term"
|
Feb 20, 2020 |
Edward Thomas' "February Afternoon"
|
Feb 18, 2020 |
Lines from Romeo and Juliet 1.5
|
Feb 17, 2020 |
Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
|
Feb 14, 2020 |
Sally Thomas' "Obscure Constellation in Winter"
|
Feb 13, 2020 |
Maurice Mannings" "An Old Track in the Woods"
|
Feb 12, 2020 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"
|
Feb 11, 2020 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose"
|
Feb 10, 2020 |
Stanley Kunitz' "The Round"
|
Feb 07, 2020 |
A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees"
|
Feb 06, 2020 |
Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa"
|
Feb 05, 2020 |
Louise Bogan's "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"
|
Feb 04, 2020 |
John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Changeling"
|
Feb 03, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "Design"
|
Jan 31, 2020 |
Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird"
|
Jan 30, 2020 |
W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"
|
Jan 29, 2020 |
W.B. Yeat's "Adam's Curse"
|
Jan 28, 2020 |
W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
|
Jan 27, 2020 |
Christina Rosetti's "Birthday"
|
Jan 24, 2020 |
Trumbull Stickney "Mnemosyne"
|
Jan 23, 2020 |
Louise Bogan's "Women"
|
Jan 22, 2020 |
Robert Bridges' "London Snow"
|
Jan 21, 2020 |
Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
|
Jan 17, 2020 |
W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
|
Jan 16, 2020 |
Richard Wilbur's "Orchard Trees, January"
|
Jan 15, 2020 |
Emily Dickinson's "the sky is low"
|
Jan 14, 2020 |
Karl Shapiro's "California Winter"
|
Jan 13, 2020 |
Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
|
Jan 07, 2020 |
George Mackay Brown's "Epiphany Poem"
|
Jan 06, 2020 |
Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"
|
Jan 01, 2020 |
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "When the Year Grows Old"
|
Dec 31, 2019 |
T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"
|
Dec 26, 2019 |
Clement Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
|
Dec 24, 2019 |
Robert Bridges' "Noel: Christmas Eve 1913"
|
Dec 23, 2019 |
Emily Bronte's "The night is darkening round me"
|
Dec 20, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "A Leaf Falling in Winter"
|
Dec 19, 2019 |
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas at Sea"
|
Dec 18, 2019 |
2 Poems: Chesterton and Yeats for Advent Christmas
|
Dec 17, 2019 |
Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man"
|
Dec 16, 2019 |
Emily Dickinson's "I should not dare to leave my friend"
|
Dec 13, 2019 |
Elinor Wylie's "Silver Filigree"
|
Dec 12, 2019 |
Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"
|
Dec 11, 2019 |
Donald Hall's "The Snow"
|
Dec 10, 2019 |
Gail Mazur's "Ice"
|
Dec 09, 2019 |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "Advent Calendar"
|
Dec 06, 2019 |
Two Poems for Jeremiah on His 7th Birthday
|
Dec 05, 2019 |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "The Paperweight"
|
Dec 04, 2019 |
John Clare's "Winter Walk"
|
Dec 03, 2019 |
Charlotte Mew's "A Quoi Bon Dire"
|
Nov 22, 2019 |
Ogden Nash's "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"
|
Nov 21, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "Crows Nests"
|
Nov 20, 2019 |
Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"
|
Nov 19, 2019 |
Carolyn Kizer's "Parents' Pantoum"
|
Nov 15, 2019 |
Gwyn Harwood's "A Game of Chess"
|
Nov 14, 2019 |
James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost Is on the Pun'kin"
|
Nov 13, 2019 |
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
|
Nov 12, 2019 |
Ted Kooser's "Splitting an Order"
|
Nov 11, 2019 |
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "God's World"
|
Nov 08, 2019 |
Robert Penn Warren's "Heart of Autumn"
|
Nov 07, 2019 |
Scott Cairns' "Which Tribe, Which River?"
|
Nov 06, 2019 |
Maurice Manning's "The Art of Poetry"
|
Nov 05, 2019 |
Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"
|
Nov 04, 2019 |
Phyllis McGinley's "November"
|
Nov 01, 2019 |
Thomas Hardy's "Last Week in October"
|
Oct 31, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "October Maples, Portland"
|
Oct 30, 2019 |
Edith Wharton's "The Autumn Sunset"
|
Oct 29, 2019 |
R.S. Thomas' "Welsh Landscape"
|
Oct 28, 2019 |
Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
|
Oct 25, 2019 |
John Clare's "Badger"
|
Oct 24, 2019 |
C.S. Lewis' "Have you not seen?"
|
Oct 23, 2019 |
Lewis Carroll's "Mad Gardener's Song"
|
Oct 22, 2019 |
Jones Very's "New Birth"
|
Oct 21, 2019 |
Stephen Vincent Benet's "Christopher Columbus"
|
Oct 18, 2019 |
Charlotte Turner Smith's "Written in October (1797)"
|
Oct 17, 2019 |
Ted Hughes' "The Seven Sorrows"
|
Oct 16, 2019 |
Robert Penn Warren's "Boy Wandering in Sims Valley"
|
Oct 15, 2019 |
Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking"
|
Oct 14, 2019 |
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 5)
|
Oct 11, 2019 |
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 4)
|
Oct 10, 2019 |
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 3)
|
Oct 09, 2019 |
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 2)
|
Oct 08, 2019 |
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 1)
|
Oct 07, 2019 |
Longfellow's "The Fire of Driftwood"
|
Oct 04, 2019 |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
|
Oct 03, 2019 |
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "Autumn Chant"
|
Oct 02, 2019 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"
|
Oct 01, 2019 |
Louise Bogan's "Putting to Sea"
|
Sep 30, 2019 |
Howard Nemerov's "The Dying Garden"
|
Sep 27, 2019 |
Alberto Rios' "Don't Go Into the Library"
|
Sep 24, 2019 |
John Keats' "To Autumn"
|
Sep 23, 2019 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"
|
Sep 20, 2019 |
Jo Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
|
Sep 19, 2019 |
Zbigniew Herbert's "A Journey"
|
Sep 18, 2019 |
Emily Dickinson's "Summer Begins to Have The Look"
|
Sep 17, 2019 |
Mary Jo Salter's "Half a Double Sonnet"
|
Sep 16, 2019 |
Christina Rossetti's "Summer Is Ended"
|
Sep 13, 2019 |
A.E. Stallings "Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason Aged Three"
|
Sep 12, 2019 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Bilingual/Bilingue"
|
Sep 12, 2019 |
Francis Thompson's "In no Strange Land"
|
Sep 10, 2019 |
Howard Nemerov's "Elegy for Summer"
|
Sep 09, 2019 |
Seamus Heaney's "Personal Helicon"
|
Sep 06, 2019 |
Seamus Heaney's "Two Lorries"
|
Sep 05, 2019 |
Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
|
Sep 04, 2019 |
Seamus Heaney's "Death of a Naturalist"
|
Sep 03, 2019 |
Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"
|
Aug 29, 2019 |
John Donne's "Twickenham Garden"
|
Aug 28, 2019 |
Elizabeth Jennings' "Act of the Imagination"
|
Aug 27, 2019 |
A.E. Housman's "When Summer's End Is Nighing"
|
Aug 26, 2019 |
Robert Frost's "Hyla Brook"
|
Aug 23, 2019 |
Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
|
Aug 22, 2019 |
Scott Cairns' "Still Life with Low Cloud and Mist"
|
Aug 21, 2019 |
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
|
Aug 20, 2019 |
Joshua Alan Sturgill's "As Though a Seed"
|
Aug 19, 2019 |
Robert Penn Warren's "August Moon"
|
Aug 16, 2019 |
Amy Lowell's "Dog Days"
|
Aug 15, 2019 |
Alice Meynell's "The Rainy Summer"
|
Aug 14, 2019 |
Langston Hughes' "Summer Night"
|
Aug 13, 2019 |
Donald Justice's "there is a gold light in certain old paintings"
|
Aug 13, 2019 |
Charles Causley's "I am the Great Sun"
|
Aug 09, 2019 |
Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation"
|
Aug 08, 2019 |
Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"
|
Aug 08, 2019 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare"
|
Aug 06, 2019 |
Wendell Berry's "A Poem on Hope"
|
Aug 05, 2019 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Cap and Bells"
|
Jul 16, 2019 |
Ted Kooser's "So This is Nebraska"
|
Jul 12, 2019 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Flood"
|
Jul 11, 2019 |
Shakespeare's "The Quality of Mercy" speech
|
Jul 10, 2019 |
W.H. Auden's "Epitaph of Tyrant"
|
Jul 09, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "My Father Paints the Summer"
|
Jul 08, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "Learning a Dead Language"
|
Jul 05, 2019 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
|
Jul 03, 2019 |
William Wordsworth's "it is a beauteous evening"
|
Jul 02, 2019 |
A.E. Stallings' "Empathy"
|
Jul 01, 2019 |
Henry David Thoreau's "Summer Rain"
|
Jun 28, 2019 |
David Wagoner's "Falling Asleep in the Garden"
|
Jun 27, 2019 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"
|
Jun 26, 2019 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Look Long Enough"
|
Jun 25, 2019 |
John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
|
Jun 24, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"
|
Jun 17, 2019 |
Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang"
|
Jun 14, 2019 |
Frank O'Hara's "Having a coke with you"
|
Jun 13, 2019 |
Robert Wrigley's "Horseflies"
|
Jun 12, 2019 |
Thomas Lux's "A Little Tooth"
|
Jun 11, 2019 |
Mary Oliver's "Summer Poem"
|
Jun 10, 2019 |
Emily Dickinson's "I died for beauty - but was scarce"
|
Jun 06, 2019 |
John Masefield's "Sea Fever"
|
Jun 05, 2019 |
Howard Nemerov's "Trees"
|
Jun 04, 2019 |
Wallace Stevens' "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm"
|
Jun 03, 2019 |
Phyllis McGinley's "June in the Suburbs"
|
May 31, 2019 |
Denise Levertov's "The Secret"
|
May 30, 2019 |
Oh My Darling Clementine
|
May 28, 2019 |
Wendell Berry's "The Vacation"
|
May 24, 2019 |
Wallace Stevens' "Gallant Chateau"
|
May 23, 2019 |
D.H. Lawrence's "A Baby Running Barefoot"
|
May 22, 2019 |
"Lonesome Valley" + The Next Memory Contest!
|
May 20, 2019 |
Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"
|
May 17, 2019 |
Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners"
|
May 16, 2019 |
Wendell Berry's "Her First Calf"
|
May 14, 2019 |
Jane Kenyon's "Not Here"
|
May 13, 2019 |
Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"
|
May 10, 2019 |
"Starving to Death on a Government Claim"
|
May 09, 2019 |
Paul Quenon's "The Mad Monk's Amibition"
|
May 08, 2019 |
Christine Perrin's "The Book of Nature"
|
May 07, 2019 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Links"
|
May 06, 2019 |
Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"
|
May 03, 2019 |
Louis MacNeice's "To Posterity"
|
May 02, 2019 |
A Home on the Range
|
May 01, 2019 |
Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill"
|
May 01, 2019 |
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
|
Apr 27, 2019 |
William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
|
Apr 25, 2019 |
William Blake's "London"
|
Apr 24, 2019 |
Percy Shelley's "Skylark"
|
Apr 24, 2019 |
John Updike's "Seven Stanzas for Easter"
|
Apr 22, 2019 |
Christina Rossetti's "Good Friday"
|
Apr 19, 2019 |
Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"
|
Apr 18, 2019 |
Rhina Espaillat's "Workshop"
|
Apr 17, 2019 |
Willa Cather's "Paris"
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
Stevie Smith's "Black March"
|
Apr 10, 2019 |
John Donne's "At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners"
|
Apr 09, 2019 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy"
|
Apr 09, 2019 |
e.e. cummings' [in just-]
|
Apr 05, 2019 |
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
|
Apr 04, 2019 |
Edward Lear's "Yonghy Bonghy Bo"
|
Apr 04, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "A Storm in April"
|
Apr 03, 2019 |
Paul Mariani's "Quid Pro Quo"
|
Apr 01, 2019 |
Some lines from Emily Wilson's translation of the "Odyssey"
|
Mar 29, 2019 |
Janet Lewis' "Remembered Morning"
|
Mar 28, 2019 |
Wordsworth's "Lines Written in Early Spring"
|
Mar 27, 2019 |
Mary Oliver's "Spring"
|
Mar 23, 2019 |
Robert Frost's "Putting in the Seed"
|
Mar 21, 2019 |
A few more by W.S. Merwin
|
Mar 20, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "The Morning"
|
Mar 20, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "For the Anniversary of My Death"
|
Mar 19, 2019 |
Louis MacNeice's "Snow"
|
Mar 14, 2019 |
A.E. Housman's "The Loveliest Tree"
|
Mar 13, 2019 |
Sara Teasdale's "Barter"
|
Mar 07, 2019 |
Malcolm Guite's "Ash Wednesday"
|
Mar 07, 2019 |
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
|
Mar 05, 2019 |
From Henry Howard's translation of the Aeneid
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Mar 05, 2019 |
Richard Wilbur's "March"
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Mar 01, 2019 |
Tolkien Contest Winners!
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Feb 28, 2019 |
Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"
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Feb 27, 2019 |
Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"
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Feb 26, 2019 |
William Shakespeare's Mark Antony Speech
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Feb 25, 2019 |
W.H. Auden's "If I Could Tell You"
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Feb 22, 2019 |
Thomas Kinsella's "Mirror in February"
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Feb 21, 2019 |
Donald Justice's "Pantoum of the Great Depression"
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Feb 21, 2019 |
Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"
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Feb 19, 2019 |
George Herbert's "The Pulley"
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Feb 18, 2019 |
From Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 5
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Feb 14, 2019 |
James Schuyler's "February 13, 1975"
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Feb 13, 2019 |
Sylvia Plath's "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber"
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Feb 12, 2019 |
2 Winter Poems from William Carlos Williams
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Feb 07, 2019 |
Natasha Tretheway's "Limen"
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Feb 06, 2019 |
Emily Dickinson's "There Is a Certain Slant of Light"
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Feb 05, 2019 |
Robert Frost's "The Wood Pile"
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Feb 04, 2019 |
Wallace Stevens' "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
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Jan 30, 2019 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"
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Jan 29, 2019 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"
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Jan 28, 2019 |
Longfellow's "Snowflakes"
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Jan 25, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "To a Leaf Falling on Snow"
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Jan 24, 2019 |
Sara Teasdale's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
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Jan 23, 2019 |
A.E. Stallings' "Cast Irony"
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Jan 22, 2019 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
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Jan 21, 2019 |
Maurice Manning's "On Silence"
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Jan 17, 2019 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Musical Instrument"
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Jan 16, 2019 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On and On" (plus some information on the next memory contest!)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gently"
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Jan 14, 2019 |
W.S. Merwin's "Fox Sleep"
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Jan 12, 2019 |
William Morris' "A Garden by the Sea"
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Jan 10, 2019 |
Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallott"
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Jan 09, 2019 |
Lord Byrons' "So We'll Go No More a Roving"
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Jan 08, 2019 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "Twelfth Morning, or What You Will"
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Jan 07, 2019 |
Malcolm Guite's "Epiphany"
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Jan 04, 2019 |
Phyllis McGinley's "Twelfth Night"
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Jan 03, 2019 |
William Carlos Williams' "Burning the Christmas Greens"
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Jan 03, 2019 |
W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"
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Dec 31, 2018 |
T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"
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Dec 28, 2018 |
William Butler Yeat's "The Mother of God"
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Dec 27, 2018 |
Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant At The Inn"
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Dec 26, 2018 |
Langston Hughes' "Shepherd’s Song at Christmas"
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Dec 25, 2018 |
Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nick"
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Dec 24, 2018 |
Lord Tennyson's "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
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Dec 20, 2018 |
A Phyllis McGinley Christmas Poem Sampler
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Dec 20, 2018 |
Wendell Berry's "Our Christmas Tree"
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Dec 19, 2018 |
Richard Wilbur's "A Christmas Hymn"
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Dec 17, 2018 |
John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Dec 14, 2018 |
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
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Dec 12, 2018 |
E.E. Cummings' "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]"
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Dec 11, 2018 |
Billy Collins' "Snow Day"
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Dec 10, 2018 |
Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter"
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Dec 06, 2018 |
Mary Oliver's "The Black Walnut Tree"
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Dec 05, 2018 |
Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
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Dec 03, 2018 |
William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
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Nov 29, 2018 |
W.H. Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"
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Nov 28, 2018 |
Wendell Berry's "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
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Nov 27, 2018 |
James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"
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Nov 26, 2018 |
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
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Nov 21, 2018 |
John McRae's "In Flanders Fields"
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Nov 20, 2018 |
Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"
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Nov 20, 2018 |
Billy Collins' "Love"
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Nov 15, 2018 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
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Nov 14, 2018 |
William Shakespeare's "to be or not to be" Soliloquy
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Nov 13, 2018 |
John Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
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Nov 12, 2018 |
Edward Lear's "The Jumblies"
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Nov 09, 2018 |
Luci Shaw's "Mary's Song"
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Nov 08, 2018 |
Wallace Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West"
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Nov 07, 2018 |
John Keats' “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”
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Nov 06, 2018 |
Contest Winners
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Nov 05, 2018 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
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Nov 02, 2018 |
Henry Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" (excerpt from Part III)
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Nov 01, 2018 |
Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman"
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Oct 31, 2018 |
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
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Oct 30, 2018 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Little Ghost"
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Oct 30, 2018 |
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"
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Oct 27, 2018 |
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
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Oct 25, 2018 |
W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen"
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Oct 24, 2018 |
Christina Rossetti's "Shut Out"
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Oct 23, 2018 |
William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Oct 22, 2018 |
Scott Cairns' "Early Frost"
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Oct 18, 2018 |
Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Shadow"
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Oct 17, 2018 |
Richard Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
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Oct 16, 2018 |
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
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Oct 15, 2018 |
John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" (Sonnet X)
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Oct 11, 2018 |
William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"
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Oct 10, 2018 |
Langston Hughes' "A Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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Oct 09, 2018 |
John Keats' "To Autumn"
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Oct 08, 2018 |
Gail Mazur's "Baseball"
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Oct 05, 2018 |
A.A. Milne's "At the Zoo"
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Oct 04, 2018 |
George Herbert's "Love III"
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Oct 03, 2018 |
William Blake's "The Tyger"
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Oct 02, 2018 |
Wendell Berry's Sabbath poem #2 from 1980.
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Oct 01, 2018 |
Mary Oliver's "Tasting the Wild Grapes"
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Sep 28, 2018 |
Thomas Gray's "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
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Sep 27, 2018 |
Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking"
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Sep 26, 2018 |
William Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up"
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Sep 25, 2018 |
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Autumn Day"
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Sep 24, 2018 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur"
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Sep 21, 2018 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn"
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Sep 20, 2018 |
T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"
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Sep 19, 2018 |
Henry Wadworth Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
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Sep 18, 2018 |
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
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Sep 13, 2018 |
Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night"
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Sep 12, 2018 |
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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Sep 11, 2018 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?"
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Sep 10, 2018 |
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
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Sep 07, 2018 |
William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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Sep 06, 2018 |
Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"
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Sep 05, 2018 |
William Shakespeare's Agincourt Speech from Henry V
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Sep 04, 2018 |
Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabelle Lee"
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Sep 03, 2018 |
Rudyard Kipling's If
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Aug 31, 2018 |
William Wordsworth's The World Is Too Much with Us
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Aug 30, 2018 |
Lord Byron’s She Walks in Beauty
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Aug 30, 2018 |
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
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Aug 28, 2018 |
William Shakespeare's Sonnet #18
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Aug 27, 2018 |
Welcome to the Daily Poem Podcast!
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Aug 22, 2018 |