Bra podd

Fernando Valverde's "Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him"

14 maj | 4 min

Marya Zaturensky's "The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers"

12 maj | 7 min

Henry Sambrooke Leigh's "The Twins"

9 maj | 3 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

7 maj | 9 min

William Cowper's "The Poplar Field"

5 maj | 4 min

Larry K. Richman's "The Joys of House Wrecking"

2 maj | 5 min

Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"

30 april | 6 min

John Keats' "This Living Hand"

28 april | 5 min

E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

25 april | 4 min

Walter de la Mare's "Good-bye"

23 april | 5 min

Scott Cairns' "Coracle"

21 april | 4 min

T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker IV”

18 april | 4 min

Carl Sandburg's "Buffalo Dusk"

16 april | 5 min

J. R. R. Tolkien's "When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf"

14 april | 5 min

Franz Wright's "The Raising of Lazarus"

11 april | 6 min

Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"

9 april | 7 min

Mary Oliver's "Breakage"

7 april | 6 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (selections)

4 april | 9 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Dungeon"

2 april | 5 min

William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

31 mars | 13 min

Hilaire Belloc's "The Scorpion"

28 mars | 3 min

Oliver Goldsmith's "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"

26 mars | 4 min

Two Poems for the Annunciation

25 mars | 7 min

David Wagoner's "For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop"

24 mars | 6 min

Sarah Lindsay's "Zucchini Shofar"

21 mars | 5 min

Siegfried Sassoon's "Attack"

19 mars | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

17 mars | 8 min

Thomas Parnell's "The Book-Worm"

14 mars | 6 min

Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"

12 mars | 3 min

Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

10 mars | 9 min

Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"

7 mars | 10 min

T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"

5 mars | 12 min

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

3 mars | 9 min

Rudyard Kipling's "The Camel's Hump"

28 februari | 4 min

Langston Hughes' "Dreams"

26 februari | 4 min

Richard Henry Horne's "The Plough"

24 februari | 9 min

Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

21 februari | 7 min

Gary Soto's "Oranges"

19 februari | 8 min

Maurice Manning's "A Plank from the Platform"

17 februari | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "Loving You Has Taught Me..."

14 februari | 9 min

W. H. Auden's "Night Mail"

12 februari | 6 min

Anne Brontë's "The North Wind"

10 februari | 4 min

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 2

7 februari | 6 min

Zbigniew Herbert's "The Salt of the Earth"

5 februari | 11 min

Ted Kooser's "So This Is Nebraska"

3 februari | 7 min

Phyllis McGinley's "Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint"

31 januari | 4 min

John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

29 januari | 9 min

Mary Oliver's "First Snow"

27 januari | 8 min

G. K. Chesterton's "Stilton and Milton"

24 januari | 6 min

John Keble's "The Accession"

22 januari | 5 min

Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"

20 januari | 10 min

Billy Collins' "Thesaurus"

17 januari | 6 min

John Davies' "Nosce Teipsum: of Human Knowledge"

15 januari | 13 min

Ted Kooser's Blizzard Voices

13 januari | 4 min

Kingsley Amis' "A Bookshop Idyll"

10 januari | 5 min

A. E. Stallings' "Scissors"

8 januari | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"

6 januari | 8 min

Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"

3 januari | 12 min

Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"

2 januari | 6 min

Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

1 januari | 8 min

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"

31 december 2024 | 9 min

William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"

30 december 2024 | 9 min

Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

27 december 2024 | 10 min

W. H. Auden's Conclusion to For the Time Being

26 december 2024 | 6 min

W. H. Auden's "Chorus of Angels"

25 december 2024 | 4 min

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Noel"

24 december 2024 | 4 min

George Herbert's "Love (III)"

23 december 2024 | 10 min

Two Christmas Poems from G. K. Chesterton

20 december 2024 | 4 min

Donald Hall's "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville"

19 december 2024 | 5 min

James Merrill's "Christmas Tree"

18 december 2024 | 5 min

Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"

17 december 2024 | 5 min

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

16 december 2024 | 8 min

Malcolm Guite's "Launde Abbey on Saint Lucy's Day"

13 december 2024 | 3 min

Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol"

12 december 2024 | 9 min

Ezra Pound's "The White Stag"

11 december 2024 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's "In this short Life that only lasts an hour"

10 december 2024 | 5 min

Mark Strand's "The New Poetry Handbook"

9 december 2024 | 12 min

Malcolm Guite's "St. Nicholas"

6 december 2024 | 3 min

William Carlos Williams' "The Hunters in the Snow"

5 december 2024 | 11 min

Anne Bradstreet's "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

4 december 2024 | 8 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes"

3 december 2024 | 11 min

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Winter-Time"

2 december 2024 | 5 min

Craig Arnold's "Meditation on a Grapefruit"

29 november 2024 | 9 min

Anna Kamieńska's "Small Things"

28 november 2024 | 11 min

Jacqueline Woodson's "lessons"

27 november 2024 | 3 min

Blaise Cendrars' "Menus"

26 november 2024 | 9 min

Bill Holm's "Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe"

25 november 2024 | 8 min

James Matthew Wilson's "Agricola: A Song for Planting

22 november 2024 | 8 min

Wendell Berry's "The Thought of Something Else"

21 november 2024 | 5 min

John Masefield's "Cargoes"

20 november 2024 | 13 min

Emily Dickinson's "I fear a Man of frugal Speech"

19 november 2024 | 5 min

William Blake's "The Tyger"

18 november 2024 | 13 min

Jessica Greenbaum's "A Poem for S."

15 november 2024 | 11 min

Rhina P. Espaillat's "Changeling"

14 november 2024 | 7 min

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

13 november 2024 | 11 min

from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha's Wooing"

12 november 2024 | 6 min

Charles Wolfe's "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"

11 november 2024 | 6 min

Kenneth Grahame's "A Song of Mr. Toad"

8 november 2024 | 4 min

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "A Common Inference"

7 november 2024 | 7 min

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

6 november 2024 | 9 min

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then fiddle."

5 november 2024 | 9 min

Thomas Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone"

5 november 2024 | 12 min

Luci Shaw's "Judas, Peter"

1 november 2024 | 7 min

Jonathan Swift's "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"

31 oktober 2024 | 4 min

Kenn Nesbitt's "Halloween Party"

30 oktober 2024 | 3 min

William Shakespeare's "Advice to Laertes" (from Hamlet I.3)

29 oktober 2024 | 4 min

Bob Hicok's "O My Pa-Pa"

28 oktober 2024 | 17 min

J. R. R. Tolkien's "When winter first begins to bite"

25 oktober 2024 | 7 min

Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way"

24 oktober 2024 | 4 min

Amy Lowell's "Trades"

23 oktober 2024 | 7 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven"

22 oktober 2024 | 5 min

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

21 oktober 2024 | 7 min

Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha"

18 oktober 2024 | 5 min

James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

17 oktober 2024 | 5 min

John Masefield's "Laugh and Be Merry"

16 oktober 2024 | 8 min

Donald Hall's "My Son, My Executioner"

15 oktober 2024 | 6 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son"

14 oktober 2024 | 10 min

Ben Jonson's "On My First Sonne"

11 oktober 2024 | 7 min

John Keats' "To Autumn"

10 oktober 2024 | 4 min

David McCord's "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern"

9 oktober 2024 | 6 min

Ogden Nash's "A Word to Husbands"

8 oktober 2024 | 5 min

Walter Savage Landor's "To Robert Browning"

8 oktober 2024 | 7 min

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Mythopoeia"

4 oktober 2024 | 14 min

R. S. Thomas' "Poetry for Supper"

3 oktober 2024 | 9 min

Dorothy Parker's "The Trifler"

2 oktober 2024 | 5 min

Louis Untermeyer's "A Man"

1 oktober 2024 | 5 min

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

30 september 2024 | 15 min

Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

27 september 2024 | 6 min

Matthew Arnold's "Shakespeare"

26 september 2024 | 7 min

James Wright's "A Blessing"

25 september 2024 | 6 min

Wendy Cope's "Emily Dickinson"

24 september 2024 | 5 min

Donald Hall's "The Baseball Players"

23 september 2024 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "Advice to a Prophet"

20 september 2024 | 6 min

Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"

19 september 2024 | 8 min

Samuel Johnson's "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet"

18 september 2024 | 6 min

Lear and Cordelia ("Come, let's away to prison")

17 september 2024 | 8 min

A. A. Milne's "Us Two"

16 september 2024 | 4 min

Rudyard Kipling's "The Roman Centurion's Song"

13 september 2024 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "A Happy Birthday"

12 september 2024 | 6 min

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam: 27"

11 september 2024 | 6 min

Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "I Sit and Sew"

10 september 2024 | 10 min

Dorianne Laux's "I Dare You"

9 september 2024 | 8 min

John Donne's "Resurrection"

6 september 2024 | 7 min

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 10: 'Death be not proud...'"

5 september 2024 | 11 min

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 7: 'At the round earth's imagined corners...'"

4 september 2024 | 6 min

John Donne's "Temple"

3 september 2024 | 5 min

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 1"

2 september 2024 | 7 min

Scott Cairns' "Change Your Life"

30 augusti 2024 | 11 min

Thomas Merton's "The Quickening Of St. John The Baptist"

29 augusti 2024 | 5 min

Ted Hughes' "The Thought-Fox"

28 augusti 2024 | 7 min

Mark Strand's "The Prediction"

27 augusti 2024 | 5 min

John Keats' "On the Sonnet"

26 augusti 2024 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's "Wild nights - Wild nights!"

23 augusti 2024 | 9 min

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

22 augusti 2024 | 8 min

Langston Hughes' "Theme For English B"

21 augusti 2024 | 7 min

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

20 augusti 2024 | 6 min

Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

20 augusti 2024 | 6 min

Even More Limericks

20 augusti 2024 | 2 min

More Limericks

15 augusti 2024 | 2 min

Beard Limericks

14 augusti 2024 | 3 min

Two "Practical" Limericks

13 augusti 2024 | 2 min

Edward Lear's "There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ"

12 augusti 2024 | 5 min

Nazim Hikmet's "On Living"

9 augusti 2024 | 12 min

Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness"

8 augusti 2024 | 6 min

T. S. Eliot's "Old Deuteronomy"

7 augusti 2024 | 5 min

Robert Penn Warren's "Bearded Oaks"

6 augusti 2024 | 9 min

Bruce Lansky's "Confession"

5 augusti 2024 | 5 min

Two by Ogden Nash

2 augusti 2024 | 3 min

Oliver Herford's "The Platypus"

1 augusti 2024 | 6 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

31 juli 2024 | 11 min

Margaret Wise Brown's "Wild Black Crows"

30 juli 2024 | 3 min

Katherine Craster's "The Centipede's Dilemma"

29 juli 2024 | 5 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice"

26 juli 2024 | 8 min

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 4

25 juli 2024 | 6 min

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 3

24 juli 2024 | 4 min

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 2

23 juli 2024 | 3 min

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 1

22 juli 2024 | 6 min

John Hollander's "A Watched Pot"

19 juli 2024 | 10 min

William Blake's "The Divine Image"

18 juli 2024 | 8 min

John Milton's "When I consider how my light is spent"

17 juli 2024 | 12 min

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"

16 juli 2024 | 7 min

Ben Jonson's "Though I be young"

15 juli 2024 | 8 min

Amy Clampitt's "The Godfather Returns to Color TV"

12 juli 2024 | 9 min

Siegfried Sassoon's "Picture-Show"

11 juli 2024 | 5 min

Hart Crane's "Chaplinesque"

10 juli 2024 | 7 min

Joseph Stanton's "Edward Hopper's 'New York Movie'"

9 juli 2024 | 9 min

Cornelius Eady's "Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet"

8 juli 2024 | 10 min

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's "America, I Sing You Back"

5 juli 2024 | 5 min

Two for the Fourth

4 juli 2024 | 6 min

Grace Schulman's "American Solitude"

3 juli 2024 | 18 min

John Ciardi's "Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast"

2 juli 2024 | 2 min

Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"

1 juli 2024 | 9 min

Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,"

28 juni 2024 | 11 min

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Lawyers' Ways"

28 juni 2024 | 5 min

Adam's "Bone of My Bone"

26 juni 2024 | 6 min

William Butler Yeats' "Brown Penny"

25 juni 2024 | 8 min

Marianne Moore's "Silence"

24 juni 2024 | 10 min

Matthew Hollis' "The Diomedes"

21 juni 2024 | 10 min

Jim Daniels' "Short-Order Cook"

20 juni 2024 | 8 min

Lucille Clifton's "cutting greens"

20 juni 2024 | 10 min

Robert Graves' "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child"

18 juni 2024 | 4 min

Carl Sandburg's "Fog"

17 juni 2024 | 5 min

Donald Davidson's "Lee in the Mountains" Pt. 2

14 juni 2024 | 5 min

Donald Davidson's "Lee in the Mountains" Pt. 1

13 juni 2024 | 6 min

Robert Bly's "The Moon"

12 juni 2024 | 7 min

Jane Kenyon's "Otherwise"

11 juni 2024 | 8 min

R. S. Gwynn's "Shakespearean Sonnet"

10 juni 2024 | 7 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 ("They that have power")

7 juni 2024 | 10 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 ("My love is as a fever...")

6 juni 2024 | 11 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 ("That time of year...")

5 juni 2024 | 7 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 ("Not marble...")

5 juni 2024 | 7 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee...")

3 juni 2024 | 9 min

Oliver Herford's "The Early Owl"

31 maj 2024 | 3 min

A. A. Milne's "Bad Sir Brian Botany"

30 maj 2024 | 4 min

Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Bed is a Boat"

29 maj 2024 | 4 min

Hilaire Belloc's "Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably"

28 maj 2024 | 8 min

Hilaire Belloc's "On the Gift of a Book to a Child"

27 maj 2024 | 4 min

Bonus: "Morituri Salutamus" in full

25 maj 2024 | 16 min

Selections From Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus"

24 maj 2024 | 9 min

Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill"

23 maj 2024 | 6 min

C. P. Cavafy's "Che Fece...Il Gran Rifiuto"

22 maj 2024 | 9 min

Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"

21 maj 2024 | 9 min

John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"

20 maj 2024 | 10 min

Matsuo Bashō's Spring Haiku

17 maj 2024 | 10 min

Thomas Nashe's "Spring, the sweet spring"

16 maj 2024 | 8 min

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"

15 maj 2024 | 8 min

E. E. Cummings' "[O sweet spontaneous]"

14 maj 2024 | 7 min

Phillis Levin's "End of April

13 maj 2024 | 8 min

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"

10 maj 2024 | 5 min

Robert Southey's "His Books"

9 maj 2024 | 10 min

William Butler Yeats' "When You Are Old"

8 maj 2024 | 5 min

John Keats' "How many bards gild the lapses of time"

7 maj 2024 | 9 min

Dorothy Wordsworth's "Loving and Liking"

6 maj 2024 | 10 min

Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the truth but tell it slant–"

4 maj 2024 | 4 min

H. D.'s "Eurydice"

2 maj 2024 | 6 min

C. S. Lewis' "Stephen to Lazarus"

1 maj 2024 | 5 min

Paul Ruffin's "We Write Nasty Notes at the Academic Conference"

30 april 2024 | 6 min

A. E. Stallings' "Dead Language Lesson"

29 april 2024 | 10 min

Scott Cairns' "Musée"

26 april 2024 | 9 min

Ted Kooser's "After Years"

25 april 2024 | 7 min

T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

24 april 2024 | 9 min

William Shakespeare's "It Was a Lover and His Lass"

23 april 2024 | 8 min

Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris"

22 april 2024 | 9 min

Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"

19 april 2024 | 12 min

William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"

18 april 2024 | 10 min

John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"

17 april 2024 | 7 min

Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"

16 april 2024 | 10 min

Wendell Berry's "The Plan"

15 april 2024 | 5 min

Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"

12 april 2024 | 12 min

Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"

11 april 2024 | 9 min

Elizabeth Jennings' "Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits"

10 april 2024 | 11 min

Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"

9 april 2024 | 6 min

Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"

8 april 2024 | 13 min

Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

5 april 2024 | 7 min

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

4 april 2024 | 10 min

George Herbert's "The Church-floore"

3 april 2024 | 11 min

Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"

2 april 2024 | 5 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"

1 april 2024 | 8 min

Andrew Marvell's "A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure"

30 mars 2024 | 8 min

Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

30 mars 2024 | 14 min

Louis Simpson's "American Poetry"

27 mars 2024 | 8 min

A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees (Shropshire Lad II)"

26 mars 2024 | 13 min

Two by John Robert Lee

25 mars 2024 | 10 min

Billy Collins' "Marginalia"

22 mars 2024 | 7 min

Ezra Pound's "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"

21 mars 2024 | 10 min

Robert Frost's "Out, Out–"

20 mars 2024 | 11 min

Poem-Prayers by Robert Herrick

19 mars 2024 | 9 min

Two by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

18 mars 2024 | 9 min

David Lehman's "The Ides of March"

15 mars 2024 | 13 min

Li Po's "The Solitude of Night"

14 mars 2024 | 6 min

James Merrill's "The Octopus"

13 mars 2024 | 11 min

Hilaire Belloc's "Lines to a Don"

12 mars 2024 | 6 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet's Calendar"

11 mars 2024 | 7 min

Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Traveling Onion"

8 mars 2024 | 7 min

Colley Cibber's "The Blind Boy"

7 mars 2024 | 8 min

Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History"

6 mars 2024 | 7 min

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On"

5 mars 2024 | 6 min

Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You..?"

4 mars 2024 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"

1 mars 2024 | 7 min

Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"

29 februari 2024 | 10 min

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "Nameless Pain"

28 februari 2024 | 9 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet and His Songs"

27 februari 2024 | 9 min

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

26 februari 2024 | 11 min

William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

23 februari 2024 | 9 min

Three by Edna St. Vincent Millay

22 februari 2024 | 5 min

W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

21 februari 2024 | 7 min

Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation..."

20 februari 2024 | 4 min

James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"

19 februari 2024 | 7 min

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Love Song"

16 februari 2024 | 9 min

Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia"

15 februari 2024 | 7 min

Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

14 februari 2024 | 8 min

John Donne's "The Flea"

13 februari 2024 | 8 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98 & 99

12 februari 2024 | 6 min

William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl"

9 februari 2024 | 9 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"

8 februari 2024 | 7 min

Tracy K. Smith's "Solstice"

7 februari 2024 | 7 min

Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"

6 februari 2024 | 13 min

Langston Hughes' "Harlem"

5 februari 2024 | 11 min

Robert Herrick's "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve"

2 februari 2024 | 12 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Work Without Hope"

1 februari 2024 | 8 min

Robert Browning's "Development"

31 januari 2024 | 10 min

Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."

30 januari 2024 | 9 min

Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

29 januari 2024 | 7 min

John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"

26 januari 2024 | 12 min

Dana Gioia's "Entrance"

25 januari 2024 | 10 min

Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"

24 januari 2024 | 8 min

John Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be"

23 januari 2024 | 10 min

Christina Rossetti's "Who Has Seen the Wind?"

22 januari 2024 | 6 min

Shakespeare's "Let's talk of graves" from Richard II

19 januari 2024 | 7 min

Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus

18 januari 2024 | 6 min

Shakespeare's "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers"

17 januari 2024 | 7 min

Shakespeare's "Be Absolute For Death"

16 januari 2024 | 7 min

Shakespeare's "Prologue" to Henry V

15 januari 2024 | 9 min

Carl Sandburg's "Little Word, Little White Bird"

12 januari 2024 | 10 min

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"

11 januari 2024 | 14 min

Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"

10 januari 2024 | 4 min

Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"

10 januari 2024 | 7 min

Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"

8 januari 2024 | 10 min

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The world is a beautiful place"

5 januari 2024 | 4 min

William Carlos Williams' "January"

4 januari 2024 | 4 min

Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"

4 januari 2024 | 8 min

W. S. Merwin's "To the New Year"

2 januari 2024 | 8 min

Robert Burns' "Auld Lang Syne"

1 januari 2024 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

29 december 2023 | 10 min

Wendell Berry's "Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer"

28 december 2023 | 8 min

Dorianne Laux's "Family Stories"

27 december 2023 | 9 min

John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas"

26 december 2023 | 8 min

Two Poems for Christmas

25 december 2023 | 6 min

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"

23 december 2023 | 6 min

Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

21 december 2023 | 9 min

Ruth Moose's "My Father's Fruitcake"

20 december 2023 | 7 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"

19 december 2023 | 6 min

G. K. Chesterton's "A Child of the Snows"

18 december 2023 | 5 min

Mark Doty's "Messiah (Christmas Portions)"

15 december 2023 | 5 min

W. H. Auden's "O Tell Me the Truth About Love"

14 december 2023 | 7 min

Three Poems for St. Lucy's Day

13 december 2023 | 9 min

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

12 december 2023 | 7 min

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"

11 december 2023 | 7 min

Mary Jo Salter's "Advent"

8 december 2023 | 5 min

Czeslaw Milosz' "Blacksmith Shop"

7 december 2023 | 5 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"

6 december 2023 | 5 min

Robert Burns' "To a Mouse"

5 december 2023 | 10 min

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

4 december 2023 | 6 min

James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

1 december 2023 | 4 min

Mary Oliver's "The Mangroves"

30 november 2023 | 4 min

A. E. Stallings' "Denouement"

30 november 2023 | 7 min

William Blake's "Jerusalem"

28 november 2023 | 7 min

Richard Howard's "Oystering"

27 november 2023 | 7 min

William Matthews' "On a Diet"

24 november 2023 | 6 min

Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"

23 november 2023 | 4 min

Two Poems About Butter

22 november 2023 | 5 min

W. S. Gilbert's "National Anthem"

21 november 2023 | 7 min

Allen Tate's "Edges"

20 november 2023 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"

17 november 2023 | 5 min

Walt Whitman to His Reader

16 november 2023 | 5 min

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

15 november 2023 | 7 min

Billy Collins' "Dear Reader"

15 november 2023 | 8 min

Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"

13 november 2023 | 4 min

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

10 november 2023 | 9 min

Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"

9 november 2023 | 7 min

Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"

8 november 2023 | 7 min

Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals

7 november 2023 | 10 min

Two for Guy Fawkes Day

7 november 2023 | 10 min

Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"

3 november 2023 | 7 min

Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"

2 november 2023 | 10 min

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

2 november 2023 | 10 min

Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"

1 november 2023 | 10 min

E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing day"

30 oktober 2023 | 11 min

Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

27 oktober 2023 | 11 min

Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"

26 oktober 2023 | 10 min

The Saint Crispin's Day Speech

25 oktober 2023 | 9 min

Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"

25 oktober 2023 | 12 min

"The Death of Nelson"

24 oktober 2023 | 10 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

20 oktober 2023 | 10 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tide Rises, Tide Falls"

19 oktober 2023 | 8 min

Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"

17 oktober 2023 | 11 min

Two by Oscar Wilde

16 oktober 2023 | 15 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

11 oktober 2023 | 10 min

Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"

10 oktober 2023 | 10 min

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Tale of Tinuviel"

9 oktober 2023 | 13 min

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

3 oktober 2023 | 17 min

Rudyard Kipling's "If"

28 september 2023 | 8 min

Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"

27 september 2023 | 12 min

T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

26 september 2023 | 11 min

Thomas Gray's "Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"

25 september 2023 | 12 min

Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"

21 september 2023 | 9 min

Blaise Cendrars "Menus"

18 september 2023 | 17 min

Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"

14 september 2023 | 11 min

T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"

11 september 2023 | 9 min

Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"

8 september 2023 | 6 min

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"

7 september 2023 | 11 min

Wendell Berry's "September 2"

5 september 2023 | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"

4 september 2023 | 6 min

Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"

1 september 2023 | 9 min

Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"

28 augusti 2023 | 8 min

Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"

23 augusti 2023 | 8 min

Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"

22 augusti 2023 | 8 min

Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"

21 augusti 2023 | 9 min

Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"

15 augusti 2023 | 11 min

Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"

14 augusti 2023 | 10 min

Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"

11 augusti 2023 | 14 min

John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"

27 juli 2023 | 11 min

Matthea Harvey's "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden"

26 juli 2023 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store"

26 juli 2023 | 10 min

Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"

25 juli 2023 | 13 min

Denise Levertov's "Witness"

20 juli 2023 | 5 min

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

19 juli 2023 | 6 min

Mary Oliver's "Storage"

18 juli 2023 | 11 min

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"

12 juli 2023 | 11 min

Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"

7 juli 2023 | 11 min

Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"

6 juli 2023 | 12 min

Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884

6 juli 2023 | 17 min

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

4 juli 2023 | 16 min

Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"

3 juli 2023 | 8 min

Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"

29 juni 2023 | 16 min

Emily Dickinson's "A Little Dog That Wags Its Tail"

28 juni 2023 | 6 min

Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"

28 juni 2023 | 8 min

A. E. Stallings' "Like"

21 juni 2023 | 13 min

Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"

20 juni 2023 | 6 min

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

20 juni 2023 | 6 min

Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"

18 juni 2023 | 10 min

Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"

15 juni 2023 | 8 min

Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"

14 juni 2023 | 10 min

W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"

14 juni 2023 | 10 min

W. H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"

9 juni 2023 | 8 min

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"

8 juni 2023 | 5 min

2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

7 juni 2023 | 11 min

Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"

6 juni 2023 | 9 min

Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs"

2 juni 2023 | 10 min

John Masefield's "Sea Fever"

1 juni 2023 | 11 min

Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"

30 maj 2023 | 9 min

3 Poems for Memorial Day

29 maj 2023 | 6 min

Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"

26 maj 2023 | 6 min

John Betjeman's "A Subaltern's Love Song"

25 maj 2023 | 9 min

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

24 maj 2023 | 6 min

Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"

23 maj 2023 | 8 min

Seamus Heaney's "May"

22 maj 2023 | 7 min

The Daily Poem Is Back!

19 maj 2023 | 4 min

Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

11 maj 2022 | 7 min

Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"

10 maj 2022 | 6 min

William Blake's "A Poison Tree"

7 maj 2022 | 6 min

Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"

2 maj 2022 | 10 min

Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"

28 april 2022 | 4 min

Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"

27 april 2022 | 8 min

Louise Gluck's "Averno"

26 april 2022 | 9 min

Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"

18 april 2022 | 5 min

The Dream of the Rood

15 april 2022 | 9 min

Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"

4 april 2022 | 7 min

Wendy Cope's "The Orange"

1 april 2022 | 7 min

Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"

25 mars 2022 | 5 min

Billy Collins' "Today"

23 mars 2022 | 4 min

John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"

22 mars 2022 | 10 min

James Joyce's "Song"

19 mars 2022 | 7 min

Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"

16 mars 2022 | 4 min

Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"

14 mars 2022 | 5 min

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

9 mars 2022 | 7 min

A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"

8 mars 2022 | 9 min

Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"

3 mars 2022 | 7 min

Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

2 mars 2022 | 8 min

Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"

28 februari 2022 | 7 min

W.H. Auden's "Doggerel for a Senior Citizen"

24 februari 2022 | 7 min

James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"

23 februari 2022 | 11 min

W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"

22 februari 2022 | 7 min

Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"

22 februari 2022 | 10 min

Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban

14 februari 2022 | 6 min

Philip Larkin's "The Mower"

11 februari 2022 | 5 min

W.H. Auden's "A New Year's Greeting"

10 februari 2022 | 10 min

Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"

7 februari 2022 | 8 min

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"

4 februari 2022 | 7 min

Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"

3 februari 2022 | 5 min

Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'

2 februari 2022 | 7 min

Lucy Shaw's "Mending"

2 februari 2022 | 7 min

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"

31 januari 2022 | 9 min

Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"

22 januari 2022 | 8 min

Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"

18 januari 2022 | 9 min

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"

12 januari 2022 | 7 min

Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"

11 januari 2022 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

31 december 2021 | 9 min

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

30 december 2021 | 8 min

U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"

28 december 2021 | 4 min

Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"

28 december 2021 | 9 min

William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"

21 december 2021 | 8 min

George Santayana's "Cape Cod"

16 december 2021 | 7 min

From "W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"

15 december 2021 | 8 min

Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"

14 december 2021 | 5 min

Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence"

14 december 2021 | 6 min

Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"

6 december 2021 | 7 min

Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"

2 december 2021 | 4 min

Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"

1 december 2021 | 9 min

William Blake's "The Garden of Love"

30 november 2021 | 6 min

Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"

15 november 2021 | 7 min

Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"

11 november 2021 | 10 min

Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"

10 november 2021 | 6 min

Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"

8 november 2021 | 6 min

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"

4 november 2021 | 7 min

Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"

3 november 2021 | 9 min

Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"

2 november 2021 | 7 min

Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"

18 oktober 2021 | 9 min

Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"

23 augusti 2021 | 7 min

Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"

18 augusti 2021 | 7 min

Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"

16 augusti 2021 | 7 min

William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"

9 augusti 2021 | 8 min

Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"

5 augusti 2021 | 6 min

Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"

4 augusti 2021 | 6 min

Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"

3 augusti 2021 | 6 min

John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

26 juli 2021 | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"

23 juli 2021 | 5 min

Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

22 juli 2021 | 9 min

Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"

21 juli 2021 | 8 min

Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"

20 juli 2021 | 8 min

Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"

19 juli 2021 | 10 min

Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"

12 juli 2021 | 9 min

Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"

7 juli 2021 | 7 min

John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

6 juli 2021 | 7 min

John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"

5 juli 2021 | 9 min

Mary Oliver's "The Riders"

2 juli 2021 | 6 min

Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"

1 juli 2021 | 7 min

T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"

30 juni 2021 | 7 min

Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"

29 juni 2021 | 6 min

Amy Lowell's "Bath"

28 juni 2021 | 7 min

Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"

22 juni 2021 | 7 min

Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"

19 juni 2021 | 9 min

Jane Kenyon's "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer"

4 juni 2021 | 3 min

Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"

3 juni 2021 | 6 min

John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"

2 juni 2021 | 8 min

Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night Alone"

1 juni 2021 | 7 min

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

24 maj 2021 | 9 min

Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"

21 maj 2021 | 14 min

Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"

20 maj 2021 | 12 min

Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"

19 maj 2021 | 7 min

W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"

19 maj 2021 | 7 min

Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"

17 maj 2021 | 8 min

Ted Kooser's "Mother"

11 maj 2021 | 9 min

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

10 maj 2021 | 7 min

Sharon Olds "The Race"

6 maj 2021 | 9 min

John Keats' "After dark vapors"

5 maj 2021 | 6 min

Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"

4 maj 2021 | 6 min

Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"

3 maj 2021 | 9 min

Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"

27 april 2021 | 7 min

William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"

27 april 2021 | 6 min

Terrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"

22 april 2021 | 6 min

Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"

21 april 2021 | 7 min

Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"

20 april 2021 | 7 min

Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"

19 april 2021 | 9 min

Grace Schulman's "Because"

16 april 2021 | 7 min

Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"

15 april 2021 | 3 min

Laurie Lee's "April Rise"

14 april 2021 | 7 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"

13 april 2021 | 5 min

A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"

12 april 2021 | 9 min

Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"

5 april 2021 | 7 min

From "The Dream of the Rood"

2 april 2021 | 9 min

The World's Greatest Poem

1 april 2021 | 3 min

A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"

31 mars 2021 | 6 min

G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"

30 mars 2021 | 6 min

Amy Lowell's "Opal"

29 mars 2021 | 8 min

Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"

26 mars 2021 | 5 min

e.e. cummings' "in just"

25 mars 2021 | 6 min

Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"

24 mars 2021 | 6 min

William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"

23 mars 2021 | 8 min

R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"

23 mars 2021 | 7 min

William Wordsworth's "Written in March"

18 mars 2021 | 7 min

2 by Rhina Espaillat

17 mars 2021 | 8 min

Brutus' speech from Julius Caesar

16 mars 2021 | 9 min

William Vaughn Moody's "A Gray Day"

15 mars 2021 | 6 min

John Donne's "The Good 'Morrow"

11 mars 2021 | 8 min

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"

10 mars 2021 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poem III (1994)

9 mars 2021 | 9 min

Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"

8 mars 2021 | 6 min

Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"

5 mars 2021 | 6 min

H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"

4 mars 2021 | 9 min

Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"

2 mars 2021 | 7 min

Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur

1 mars 2021 | 9 min

Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"

26 februari 2021 | 7 min

James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"

25 februari 2021 | 8 min

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

24 februari 2021 | 10 min

Philip Larkin's "First Sight"

23 februari 2021 | 7 min

W.H. Auden's "Ode to the Medieval Poets"

22 februari 2021 | 7 min

Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives after Long Silence"

18 februari 2021 | 6 min

James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"

17 februari 2021 | 6 min

Kate Baer's "Motherload"

16 februari 2021 | 7 min

Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"

15 februari 2021 | 9 min

Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"

12 februari 2021 | 8 min

E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond"

11 februari 2021 | 7 min

Edward Thomas' "Celandine"

10 februari 2021 | 7 min

Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

9 februari 2021 | 7 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "Roosters"

8 februari 2021 | 9 min

Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"

22 december 2020 | 6 min

Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"

21 december 2020 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"

19 december 2020 | 5 min

W.H. Davies' "Winter's Beauty"

17 december 2020 | 6 min

Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"

16 december 2020 | 8 min

Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night"

15 december 2020 | 8 min

Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison!

15 december 2020 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's Birthday

10 december 2020 | 7 min

John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"

9 december 2020 | 6 min

Horace's Ode I.11

8 december 2020 | 6 min

Jane Kenyon's "Mosaic of the Nativity, Serbia, Winter 1993"

7 december 2020 | 6 min

Madeleine L'Engle's "The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold"

4 december 2020 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "A Black Birch in Winter"

3 december 2020 | 6 min

Ted Kooser's "December 2"

2 december 2020 | 6 min

Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"

1 december 2020 | 12 min

Ted Kooser's "A Glint"

4 november 2020 | 6 min

William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"

29 oktober 2020 | 8 min

Carl Sandberg's "The Long Shadow of Lincoln - A Litany"

27 oktober 2020 | 7 min

Song of Songs: Chapter 8

26 oktober 2020 | 11 min

Wendell Berry's "1997"

13 oktober 2020 | 8 min

2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas

9 oktober 2020 | 11 min

Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

8 oktober 2020 | 7 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"

7 oktober 2020 | 8 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"

6 oktober 2020 | 11 min

Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"

5 oktober 2020 | 8 min

Alice Cary's "Autumn"

2 oktober 2020 | 7 min

Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

1 oktober 2020 | 7 min

Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

30 september 2020 | 7 min

Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"

28 september 2020 | 10 min

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”

23 september 2020 | 6 min

Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"

21 september 2020 | 7 min

T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"

18 september 2020 | 9 min

Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"

16 september 2020 | 8 min

Claude McKay's "Subway Winds"

15 september 2020 | 6 min

Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"

14 september 2020 | 8 min

Billy Collins' "The Names"

11 september 2020 | 6 min

Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"

10 september 2020 | 6 min

Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"

9 september 2020 | 11 min

Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"

4 september 2020 | 9 min

H.D.'s "Helen"

3 september 2020 | 7 min

Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"

2 september 2020 | 8 min

Hayden Carruth's "Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend"

31 augusti 2020 | 9 min

Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"

28 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup"

27 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

26 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

26 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book"

24 augusti 2020 | 8 min

Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind"

20 augusti 2020 | 7 min

Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc"

19 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Billy Collins' "Aristotle"

18 augusti 2020 | 12 min

Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox"

17 augusti 2020 | 8 min

Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale"

14 augusti 2020 | 5 min

Edward Thomas' "Liberty"

12 augusti 2020 | 8 min

R. S. Thomas' "I Was Vicar of Large Things"

11 augusti 2020 | 7 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream"

10 augusti 2020 | 6 min

Shakespeare's "this royal throne of kings" soliloquy

7 augusti 2020 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "To My Mother"

5 augusti 2020 | 6 min

Rachel Richardson's "Shearwater"

4 augusti 2020 | 8 min

Charlotte Turner Smith's "Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clift'd Shore"

3 augusti 2020 | 8 min

Franz Wright's "Auto-Lullaby"

31 juli 2020 | 7 min

Lynda Hull's "Insect Life of Florida"

30 juli 2020 | 9 min

Stanley Kunitz' "The Layers"

29 juli 2020 | 7 min

Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"

28 juli 2020 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "early in the year by my friend's gift"

27 juli 2020 | 8 min

Emily Dickinson's "Of Bronze and Blaze"

24 juli 2020 | 6 min

Robert Frost's "The Tuft of Flowers"

23 juli 2020 | 9 min

William Cullen Bryant's "Summer Winds"

22 juli 2020 | 9 min

Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"

21 juli 2020 | 8 min

Malcolm Guite's "The Singing Bowl"

20 juli 2020 | 6 min

Kimberly Johnson's "Big Finish"

17 juli 2020 | 9 min

Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

15 juli 2020 | 7 min

Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"

14 juli 2020 | 6 min

Luci Shaw's "Tenting, Burr Trail, Long Canyon, Escalante"

13 juli 2020 | 8 min

Sarah Teasale's "The Answer"

10 juli 2020 | 6 min

Li-Young Lee "From Blossoms"

9 juli 2020 | 8 min

Stanley Kunitz' "The Long Boat"

8 juli 2020 | 8 min

Wendell Berry's "How to Be a Poet"

7 juli 2020 | 8 min

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

6 juli 2020 | 7 min

Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Revere"

3 juli 2020 | 7 min

4 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

2 juli 2020 | 6 min

Walt Whitman's "A July Afternoon by the Pond"

1 juli 2020 | 9 min

Czesław Miłosz's "Ars Poetica"

30 juni 2020 | 10 min

Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats"

29 juni 2020 | 7 min

Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow"

27 juni 2020 | 8 min

Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"

25 juni 2020 | 9 min

Jill Kress Karn's "Holy" and "Unfinished Madonna"

24 juni 2020 | 8 min

Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom"

23 juni 2020 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds"

22 juni 2020 | 7 min

John Clare's "Summer Moods"

19 juni 2020 | 6 min

Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise"

18 juni 2020 | 8 min

"Many Thousand Gone"

17 juni 2020 | 8 min

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

16 juni 2020 | 6 min

Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer"

12 juni 2020 | 9 min

Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song"

10 juni 2020 | 8 min

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Children of the Poor"

9 juni 2020 | 8 min

Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"

8 juni 2020 | 6 min

Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks"

5 juni 2020 | 7 min

Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again"

4 juni 2020 | 6 min

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

3 juni 2020 | 7 min

E. Nesbit's "The Despot"

28 maj 2020 | 6 min

W.H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"

27 maj 2020 | 8 min

Andrew Marvell's "The Garden"

26 maj 2020 | 7 min

Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"

20 maj 2020 | 9 min

Mark Van Doren's "In bitterness of heart I write"

19 maj 2020 | 9 min

Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"

14 maj 2020 | 7 min

Bayard Taylor "A Night with a Wolf"

13 maj 2020 | 7 min

Katherine Larson's "Metamorphoses"

12 maj 2020 | 6 min

Robert Pinsky's "Poem with lines in any order"

11 maj 2020 | 5 min

John Clare's "The Nightengale's Nest"

9 maj 2020 | 8 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring"

7 maj 2020 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "Abandoned Farmhouse"

6 maj 2020 | 8 min

Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn"

5 maj 2020 | 12 min

Seamus Heaney's "The Railway Children"

1 maj 2020 | 6 min

Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers"

29 april 2020 | 5 min

William Blake's "The Tyger"

28 april 2020 | 8 min

R.S Thomas' "90th Birthday"

24 april 2020 | 10 min

William Carlos Williams' "Spring Storm"

23 april 2020 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "The Reader"

22 april 2020 | 7 min

Poetry in a Time of Crisis

21 april 2020 | 9 min

James Matthew Wilson's "Through the Water"

20 april 2020 | 10 min

Scott Cairns' "Daily Sacrifice"

17 april 2020 | 6 min

W.H. Davies' "Leisure"

16 april 2020 | 8 min

Mary Oliver's "This Morning"

15 april 2020 | 4 min

W.S. Merwin's "Finding a Teacher"

14 april 2020 | 15 min

Wendell Berry's "An Anniversary"

13 april 2020 | 8 min

A.E. Stallings' "Dyeing the Easter Eggs"

10 april 2020 | 7 min

Dana Gioia's "Words"

11 mars 2020 | 9 min

W.H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"

10 mars 2020 | 9 min

John Clare's "First Sight of Spring"

9 mars 2020 | 6 min

Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

6 mars 2020 | 9 min

Howard Nemerov's "Learning the Trees"

5 mars 2020 | 10 min

Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"

3 mars 2020 | 7 min

Richard Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison"

2 mars 2020 | 6 min

Ryan Wilson's "For a Dog"

28 februari 2020 | 9 min

Wendell Berry's "A Purification"

27 februari 2020 | 5 min

Ted Kooser's "Deep Winter"

26 februari 2020 | 7 min

Lisel Mueller's "Monet Refuses the Operation"

25 februari 2020 | 9 min

Mary Oliver's "Gethsemane"

24 februari 2020 | 6 min

William Carlos Williams' "The Term"

20 februari 2020 | 6 min

Edward Thomas' "February Afternoon"

18 februari 2020 | 7 min

Lines from Romeo and Juliet 1.5

17 februari 2020 | 8 min

Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"

14 februari 2020 | 9 min

Sally Thomas' "Obscure Constellation in Winter"

13 februari 2020 | 11 min

Maurice Mannings" "An Old Track in the Woods"

12 februari 2020 | 10 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"

11 februari 2020 | 9 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose"

10 februari 2020 | 11 min

Stanley Kunitz' "The Round"

7 februari 2020 | 7 min

A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees"

6 februari 2020 | 5 min

Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa"

5 februari 2020 | 8 min

Louise Bogan's "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"

4 februari 2020 | 7 min

John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Changeling"

3 februari 2020 | 8 min

Robert Frost's "Design"

31 januari 2020 | 7 min

Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird"

30 januari 2020 | 7 min

W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"

29 januari 2020 | 6 min

W.B. Yeat's "Adam's Curse"

28 januari 2020 | 7 min

W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"

27 januari 2020 | 6 min

Christina Rosetti's "Birthday"

24 januari 2020 | 7 min

Trumbull Stickney "Mnemosyne"

23 januari 2020 | 11 min

Louise Bogan's "Women"

22 januari 2020 | 8 min

Robert Bridges' "London Snow"

21 januari 2020 | 9 min

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

17 januari 2020 | 8 min

W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

16 januari 2020 | 11 min

Richard Wilbur's "Orchard Trees, January"

15 januari 2020 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's "the sky is low"

14 januari 2020 | 5 min

Karl Shapiro's "California Winter"

13 januari 2020 | 10 min

Shel Silverstein's "Sick"

7 januari 2020 | 6 min

George Mackay Brown's "Epiphany Poem"

6 januari 2020 | 8 min

Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

1 januari 2020 | 10 min

Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "When the Year Grows Old"

31 december 2019 | 9 min

T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"

26 december 2019 | 9 min

Clement Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"

24 december 2019 | 4 min

Robert Bridges' "Noel: Christmas Eve 1913"

23 december 2019 | 6 min

Emily Bronte's "The night is darkening round me"

20 december 2019 | 8 min

W.S. Merwin's "A Leaf Falling in Winter"

19 december 2019 | 6 min

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas at Sea"

18 december 2019 | 9 min

2 Poems: Chesterton and Yeats for Advent Christmas

17 december 2019 | 7 min

Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man"

16 december 2019 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's "I should not dare to leave my friend"

13 december 2019 | 8 min

Elinor Wylie's "Silver Filigree"

12 december 2019 | 8 min

Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"

11 december 2019 | 6 min

Donald Hall's "The Snow"

10 december 2019 | 6 min

Gail Mazur's "Ice"

9 december 2019 | 9 min

Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "Advent Calendar"

6 december 2019 | 9 min

Two Poems for Jeremiah on His 7th Birthday

5 december 2019 | 7 min

Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "The Paperweight"

4 december 2019 | 8 min

John Clare's "Winter Walk"

3 december 2019 | 6 min

Charlotte Mew's "A Quoi Bon Dire"

22 november 2019 | 5 min

Ogden Nash's "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"

21 november 2019 | 9 min

Richard Wilbur's "Crows Nests"

20 november 2019 | 5 min

Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"

19 november 2019 | 9 min

Carolyn Kizer's "Parents' Pantoum"

15 november 2019 | 8 min

Gwyn Harwood's "A Game of Chess"

14 november 2019 | 7 min

James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost Is on the Pun'kin"

13 november 2019 | 6 min

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

12 november 2019 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "Splitting an Order"

11 november 2019 | 6 min

Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "God's World"

8 november 2019 | 7 min

Robert Penn Warren's "Heart of Autumn"

7 november 2019 | 8 min

Scott Cairns' "Which Tribe, Which River?"

6 november 2019 | 6 min

Maurice Manning's "The Art of Poetry"

5 november 2019 | 8 min

Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"

4 november 2019 | 6 min

Phyllis McGinley's "November"

1 november 2019 | 6 min

Thomas Hardy's "Last Week in October"

31 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Richard Wilbur's "October Maples, Portland"

30 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Edith Wharton's "The Autumn Sunset"

29 oktober 2019 | 8 min

R.S. Thomas' "Welsh Landscape"

28 oktober 2019 | 5 min

Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

25 oktober 2019 | 7 min

John Clare's "Badger"

24 oktober 2019 | 7 min

C.S. Lewis' "Have you not seen?"

23 oktober 2019 | 3 min

Lewis Carroll's "Mad Gardener's Song"

22 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Jones Very's "New Birth"

21 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Stephen Vincent Benet's "Christopher Columbus"

18 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Charlotte Turner Smith's "Written in October (1797)"

17 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Ted Hughes' "The Seven Sorrows"

16 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Robert Penn Warren's "Boy Wandering in Sims Valley"

15 oktober 2019 | 14 min

Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking"

14 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 5)

11 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 4)

10 oktober 2019 | 5 min

Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 3)

9 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 2)

8 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 1)

7 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Longfellow's "The Fire of Driftwood"

4 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Shakespeare's Sonnet 30

3 oktober 2019 | 7 min

Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "Autumn Chant"

2 oktober 2019 | 6 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

1 oktober 2019 | 5 min

Louise Bogan's "Putting to Sea"

30 september 2019 | 8 min

Howard Nemerov's "The Dying Garden"

27 september 2019 | 7 min

Alberto Rios' "Don't Go Into the Library"

24 september 2019 | 7 min

John Keats' "To Autumn"

23 september 2019 | 8 min

William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"

20 september 2019 | 9 min

Jo Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

19 september 2019 | 8 min

Zbigniew Herbert's "A Journey"

18 september 2019 | 12 min

Emily Dickinson's "Summer Begins to Have The Look"

17 september 2019 | 8 min

Mary Jo Salter's "Half a Double Sonnet"

16 september 2019 | 5 min

Christina Rossetti's "Summer Is Ended"

13 september 2019 | 5 min

A.E. Stallings "Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason Aged Three"

12 september 2019 | 6 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Bilingual/Bilingue"

12 september 2019 | 6 min

Francis Thompson's "In no Strange Land"

10 september 2019 | 7 min

Howard Nemerov's "Elegy for Summer"

9 september 2019 | 7 min

Seamus Heaney's "Personal Helicon"

6 september 2019 | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "Two Lorries"

5 september 2019 | 8 min

Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

4 september 2019 | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "Death of a Naturalist"

3 september 2019 | 9 min

Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"

29 augusti 2019 | 5 min

John Donne's "Twickenham Garden"

28 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Elizabeth Jennings' "Act of the Imagination"

27 augusti 2019 | 5 min

A.E. Housman's "When Summer's End Is Nighing"

26 augusti 2019 | 7 min

Robert Frost's "Hyla Brook"

23 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"

22 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Scott Cairns' "Still Life with Low Cloud and Mist"

21 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Tennyson's "Ulysses"

20 augusti 2019 | 13 min

Joshua Alan Sturgill's "As Though a Seed"

19 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Robert Penn Warren's "August Moon"

16 augusti 2019 | 7 min

Amy Lowell's "Dog Days"

15 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Alice Meynell's "The Rainy Summer"

14 augusti 2019 | 5 min

Langston Hughes' "Summer Night"

13 augusti 2019 | 5 min

Donald Justice's "there is a gold light in certain old paintings"

13 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Charles Causley's "I am the Great Sun"

9 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation"

8 augusti 2019 | 5 min

Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

8 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare"

6 augusti 2019 | 6 min

Wendell Berry's "A Poem on Hope"

5 augusti 2019 | 8 min

William Butler Yeats' "The Cap and Bells"

16 juli 2019 | 7 min

Ted Kooser's "So This is Nebraska"

12 juli 2019 | 6 min

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Flood"

11 juli 2019 | 7 min

Shakespeare's "The Quality of Mercy" speech

10 juli 2019 | 7 min

W.H. Auden's "Epitaph of Tyrant"

9 juli 2019 | 7 min

Richard Wilbur's "My Father Paints the Summer"

8 juli 2019 | 7 min

W.S. Merwin's "Learning a Dead Language"

5 juli 2019 | 8 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"

3 juli 2019 | 6 min

William Wordsworth's "it is a beauteous evening"

2 juli 2019 | 6 min

A.E. Stallings' "Empathy"

1 juli 2019 | 7 min

Henry David Thoreau's "Summer Rain"

28 juni 2019 | 7 min

David Wagoner's "Falling Asleep in the Garden"

27 juni 2019 | 7 min

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"

26 juni 2019 | 5 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Look Long Enough"

25 juni 2019 | 6 min

John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

24 juni 2019 | 6 min

Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

17 juni 2019 | 6 min

Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang"

14 juni 2019 | 5 min

Frank O'Hara's "Having a coke with you"

13 juni 2019 | 7 min

Robert Wrigley's "Horseflies"

12 juni 2019 | 7 min

Thomas Lux's "A Little Tooth"

11 juni 2019 | 4 min

Mary Oliver's "Summer Poem"

10 juni 2019 | 7 min

Emily Dickinson's "I died for beauty - but was scarce"

6 juni 2019 | 6 min

John Masefield's "Sea Fever"

5 juni 2019 | 7 min

Howard Nemerov's "Trees"

4 juni 2019 | 6 min

Wallace Stevens' "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm"

3 juni 2019 | 6 min

Phyllis McGinley's "June in the Suburbs"

31 maj 2019 | 8 min

Denise Levertov's "The Secret"

30 maj 2019 | 5 min

Oh My Darling Clementine

28 maj 2019 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "The Vacation"

24 maj 2019 | 6 min

Wallace Stevens' "Gallant Chateau"

23 maj 2019 | 7 min

D.H. Lawrence's "A Baby Running Barefoot"

22 maj 2019 | 6 min

"Lonesome Valley" + The Next Memory Contest!

20 maj 2019 | 5 min

Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"

17 maj 2019 | 7 min

Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners"

16 maj 2019 | 7 min

Wendell Berry's "Her First Calf"

14 maj 2019 | 5 min

Jane Kenyon's "Not Here"

13 maj 2019 | 7 min

Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"

10 maj 2019 | 7 min

"Starving to Death on a Government Claim"

9 maj 2019 | 9 min

Paul Quenon's "The Mad Monk's Amibition"

8 maj 2019 | 5 min

Christine Perrin's "The Book of Nature"

7 maj 2019 | 7 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Links"

6 maj 2019 | 7 min

Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"

3 maj 2019 | 10 min

Louis MacNeice's "To Posterity"

2 maj 2019 | 5 min

A Home on the Range

1 maj 2019 | 8 min

Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill"

1 maj 2019 | 10 min

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73

27 april 2019 | 9 min

William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

25 april 2019 | 5 min

William Blake's "London"

24 april 2019 | 5 min

Percy Shelley's "Skylark"

24 april 2019 | 8 min

John Updike's "Seven Stanzas for Easter"

22 april 2019 | 7 min

Christina Rossetti's "Good Friday"

19 april 2019 | 5 min

Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

18 april 2019 | 12 min

Rhina Espaillat's "Workshop"

17 april 2019 | 7 min

Willa Cather's "Paris"

16 april 2019 | 6 min

Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"

16 april 2019 | 7 min

Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Prize Jelly"

Malcolm Guite's "Transfiguration"

Terrence Hayes’ “The Same City”

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

Philip Appleman's "Anniversary"

John Donne's "The Anniversary"

Rhina P. Espaillat's "Gardening"

Carole Boston Weatherford's "Sidewalk Chalk"

Wendell Berry's "A Parting"

Karina Borowicz's "September Tomatoes"

Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"

William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"

Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"

"Old English Riddle no. 26" (trans. Roy M. Liuzza)

Louise Imogen Guiney's "John Brown: A Paradox"

Robert Lowell's "July in Washington"

Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Garden Lore"

Tracy K. Smith’s “The Good Life”

G. K. Chesterton’s “The Secret People”

John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

William Blake’s Introduction to Songs of Experience

John Keats’ “Happy is England”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"

Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

Simon Curtis's "Satie, at the End of Term"

Theodore Roethke's "Cuttings"

David Wojahn's "Pentecost"

Bert Leston Taylor's "Canopus"

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Conscientious Objector"

Jeanne Murray Walker's "The Music Before the Music"

Hilaire Belloc's "Lord Finchley"

Timothy Murphy's "Mentor"

John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields"

Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"

Emily Dickinson's "The saddest noise, the sweetest noise"

Bill Knott's "An Instructor's Dream"

Andrew Barton Paterson's "The Man From Ironbark"

Fernando Valverde's "Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him"

Marya Zaturensky's "The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers"

Henry Sambrooke Leigh's "The Twins"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

William Cowper's "The Poplar Field"

Larry K. Richman's "The Joys of House Wrecking"

Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"

John Keats' "This Living Hand"

E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

Walter de la Mare's "Good-bye"

Scott Cairns' "Coracle"

T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker IV”

Carl Sandburg's "Buffalo Dusk"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf"

Franz Wright's "The Raising of Lazarus"

Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"

Mary Oliver's "Breakage"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (selections)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Dungeon"

William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

Hilaire Belloc's "The Scorpion"

Oliver Goldsmith's "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"

Two Poems for the Annunciation

David Wagoner's "For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop"

Sarah Lindsay's "Zucchini Shofar"

Siegfried Sassoon's "Attack"

Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

Thomas Parnell's "The Book-Worm"

Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"

Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"

T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

Rudyard Kipling's "The Camel's Hump"

Langston Hughes' "Dreams"

Richard Henry Horne's "The Plough"

Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

Gary Soto's "Oranges"

Maurice Manning's "A Plank from the Platform"

Wendell Berry's "Loving You Has Taught Me..."