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Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poem III, 1994”

Wendell Berry’s “The Guest”

Wendell Berry’s “In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams”

Jane Austen’s “Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Grief”

Wendell Berry’s “Testament”

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Last Leaf”

Francis Jammes’ “A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys”

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)

John Milton’s Proem to Paradise Lost

Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”

David Wagoner’s “The Junior High School Band Concert”

William Blake's "The School Boy"

Bill Watterson's "The Yukon Song"

Thomas Dekker's "The Happy Heart"

John Donne's "The Good-Morrow"

Walter de la Mare's "Silver"

St. John of the Cross's "The Soul Aflame"

Angela Morgan's "Work: A Song of Triumph"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Consolation"

Francis Thompson's "The Kingdom of God"

Emily Dickinson's "If I can stop one heart from breaking"

Oscar Wilde’s “Portia”

Robert Service's "The Law of the Yukon"

Wisława Szymborska's "In Praise of My Sister"

Ezra Pound's "Meditatio"

Thomas Lux’s “A Little Tooth”

Herman Melville's "In the Prison Pen"

Carl Sandburg's "Back Yard"

Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something"

Edgar Guest's "A Boy and His Dad "

Richard Armour's "Parental Pride"

William McGonagall's "Attempted Assassination of the Queen"

Prudentius' "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"

Pablo Neruda's "Ode To The Artichoke"

Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

Mary Oliver’s “No Matter What”

Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”

Joyce Kilmer’s “The House with Nobody In It”

Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"

Curley Fletcher's "The Strawberry Roan"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “The Last Vegetable”

Paisley Rekdal's "Pear"

Blaze Koneski's "Peppers"

Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"

A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"

John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece

Maurice Manning's "To the People of Sangamo County"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "In Summer"

Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"

John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"

Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"

Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"

Ron Padgett's "Poem"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

Christina Rossetti's "Spring"

Alexander Pope's "To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday"

Randall Jarrell's "Well Water"

R. S. Thomas' "This"

Ogden Nash's "Taboo to Boot"

Robert Burns' "John Barleycorn"

A. R. Ammons' "Poetics"

from Malcolm Guite's "Galahad and the Grail"

Norman Maccaig's "Interruption to a Journey"

James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana"

Edward Rowland Sill's "The Fool's Prayer"

Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"

R. S. Thomas' "The Bright Field"

Jonathan Henderson Brooks' "The Resurrection"

"Pangur Ban"

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 99"

Nicholas Samaras' "The Second Death of Lazarus"

Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "One morn I left him in his bed"

Seamus Heaney's "Poem"

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Annunciation to Mary"

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Dandelions"

Naomi Shihab Nye's "My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop"

W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"

Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"

William Carlos Williams' "Love Song"

Rhina P. Espaillat’s “Butchering”

Beowulf prepares for battle

T. S. Eliot's "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"

Robert Graves' Proem to The Iliad

Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

Wendy Cope's "Men and Their Boring Arguments"

Anna Kamienska's "On the Threshold of the Poem"

Charles Lamb's "Cleanliness"

Friedrich von Schiller's "Light and Warmth"

T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday (III)"

Thomas Campion's "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings"

Aileen Fisher's "I Like It When It’s Mizzly"

Marianne Moore's "No Swan So Fine"

Robert Frost's "Not to Keep"

Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats”

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks"

William Stafford's "A Message from the Wanderer"

F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"

Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"

Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"

Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"

Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath IV, 1996"

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Feast”

William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior"

William Blake's "The Ecchoing Green"

Alfred Noyes' "Daddy Fell Into the Pond"

Paul J. Pastor's "The Oracle"

Philip Appleman’s “To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year”

A. A. Milne’s “King John’s Christmas”

Clare Bevan's "Just Doing My Job"

Cecil Day-Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"

Anna Kamienska's "Elijah Widow"

Helen Maria Williams' "To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris"

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 5

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 4

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 3

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 2

W. H. Auden "For the Time Being" pt. 1

Ted Kooser's "Christmas Mail"

John Robert Lee's "XIX: I often wonder whether the prodigal son"

Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow"

Mary Mapes Dodge's "A Song for St. Nicholas"

Luci Shaw's "Holding On"

John Keats' "In drear nighted December"

Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"

Dorianne Laux's "A Short History of the Apple"

Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"

William Matthews' "Onions"

George Herbert's "Anagram"

Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

Robert Burns' "Epistle to a Young Friend"

Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility"

Robert Hass' "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa"

John Keats' "To Autumn"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone"

George Starbuck's "Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line"

Robert Frost's "My November Guest"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Lemon Pie"

Seamus Heaney's "Follower"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

Ogden Nash's "A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty"

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath Poem III, 1994"

R. S. Thomas' "The Fisherman"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Root of the Boot"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Robert Frost's "Birches"

Charles and Mary Lamb's "Feigned Courage"

Ted Kooser's "How to Foretell a Change in the Weather"

Linda Pastan's "The Dogwoods"

Lewis Carroll's "You Are Old, Father William"

John Donne's "The Relic"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Last of the Old Gods"

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Fable"

Geoffrey Hill's "Genesis"

Prince Hal's soliloquy from Henry IV, pt.1 ("herein will I imitate the sun")

Phineas Fletcher's "A Litany"

Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam..." 1-3

Kenn Nesbitt's "Our Teacher's Not a Zombie"

Donald Hall's "An Old Life"

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters"

Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Request"

Linda Pastan's "Something About the Trees"

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

Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs"

Emily Dickinson's "How soft a Caterpillar steps —"

Randall Jarrell's "The Lost World"

Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of the Clampherdown”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Fire of Drift-wood"

Miroslav Holub's "Napoleon"

John Keats' "To Sleep"

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt..."

Live: William Carlos Williams' "The Fool's Song"

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..."

W. H. Auden's "Night Mail"

Anne Brontë's "The North Wind"

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

Zbigniew Herbert's "The Salt of the Earth"

Ted Kooser's "So This Is Nebraska"

Phyllis McGinley's "Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint"

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

Mary Oliver's "First Snow"

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

John Keble's "The Accession"

Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"

Billy Collins' "Thesaurus"

John Davies' "Nosce Teipsum: of Human Knowledge"

Ted Kooser's Blizzard Voices

Kingsley Amis' "A Bookshop Idyll"

A. E. Stallings' "Scissors"

Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"

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

Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"

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

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

William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"

Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

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

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

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

George Herbert's "Love (III)"

Two Christmas Poems from G. K. Chesterton

Donald Hall's "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville"

James Merrill's "Christmas Tree"

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

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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

Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol"

Ezra Pound's "The White Stag"

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

Mark Strand's "The New Poetry Handbook"

Malcolm Guite's "St. Nicholas"

William Carlos Williams' "The Hunters in the Snow"

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Winter-Time"

Craig Arnold's "Meditation on a Grapefruit"

Anna Kamieńska's "Small Things"

Jacqueline Woodson's "lessons"

Blaise Cendrars' "Menus"

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

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

Wendell Berry's "The Thought of Something Else"

John Masefield's "Cargoes"

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

William Blake's "The Tyger"

Jessica Greenbaum's "A Poem for S."

Rhina P. Espaillat's "Changeling"

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

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

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

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "A Common Inference"

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then fiddle."

Thomas Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone"

Luci Shaw's "Judas, Peter"

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

Kenn Nesbitt's "Halloween Party"

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

Bob Hicok's "O My Pa-Pa"

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

Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way"

Amy Lowell's "Trades"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven"

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha"

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

John Masefield's "Laugh and Be Merry"

Donald Hall's "My Son, My Executioner"

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

Ben Jonson's "On My First Sonne"

John Keats' "To Autumn"

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

Ogden Nash's "A Word to Husbands"

Walter Savage Landor's "To Robert Browning"

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

R. S. Thomas' "Poetry for Supper"

Dorothy Parker's "The Trifler"

Louis Untermeyer's "A Man"

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

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

Matthew Arnold's "Shakespeare"

James Wright's "A Blessing"

Wendy Cope's "Emily Dickinson"

Donald Hall's "The Baseball Players"

Richard Wilbur's "Advice to a Prophet"

Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"

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

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

A. A. Milne's "Us Two"

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

Ted Kooser's "A Happy Birthday"

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

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

Dorianne Laux's "I Dare You"

John Donne's "Resurrection"

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

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

John Donne's "Temple"

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 1"

Scott Cairns' "Change Your Life"

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

Ted Hughes' "The Thought-Fox"

Mark Strand's "The Prediction"

John Keats' "On the Sonnet"

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

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Langston Hughes' "Theme For English B"

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

Even More Limericks

More Limericks

Beard Limericks

Two "Practical" Limericks

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

Nazim Hikmet's "On Living"

Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness"

T. S. Eliot's "Old Deuteronomy"

Robert Penn Warren's "Bearded Oaks"

Bruce Lansky's "Confession"

Two by Ogden Nash

Oliver Herford's "The Platypus"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

Margaret Wise Brown's "Wild Black Crows"

Katherine Craster's "The Centipede's Dilemma"

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

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 4

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 3

"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 2

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

John Hollander's "A Watched Pot"

William Blake's "The Divine Image"

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"

Ben Jonson's "Though I be young"

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

Siegfried Sassoon's "Picture-Show"

Hart Crane's "Chaplinesque"

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

Cornelius Eady's "Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet"

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

Two for the Fourth

Grace Schulman's "American Solitude"

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

Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Lawyers' Ways"

Adam's "Bone of My Bone"

William Butler Yeats' "Brown Penny"

Marianne Moore's "Silence"

Matthew Hollis' "The Diomedes"

Jim Daniels' "Short-Order Cook"

Lucille Clifton's "cutting greens"

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

Carl Sandburg's "Fog"

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

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

Robert Bly's "The Moon"

Jane Kenyon's "Otherwise"

R. S. Gwynn's "Shakespearean Sonnet"

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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Herford's "The Early Owl"

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

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

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

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

Bonus: "Morituri Salutamus" in full

Selections From Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus"

Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill"

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

Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"

John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"

Matsuo Bashō's Spring Haiku

Thomas Nashe's "Spring, the sweet spring"

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"

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

Phillis Levin's "End of April

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"

Robert Southey's "His Books"

William Butler Yeats' "When You Are Old"

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

Dorothy Wordsworth's "Loving and Liking"

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

H. D.'s "Eurydice"

C. S. Lewis' "Stephen to Lazarus"

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

A. E. Stallings' "Dead Language Lesson"

Scott Cairns' "Musée"

Ted Kooser's "After Years"

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

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

Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris"

Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"

William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"

John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"

Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"

Wendell Berry's "The Plan"

Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"

Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"

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

Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"

Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"

Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

George Herbert's "The Church-floore"

Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"

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

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

Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

Louis Simpson's "American Poetry"

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

Two by John Robert Lee

Billy Collins' "Marginalia"

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

Robert Frost's "Out, Out–"

Poem-Prayers by Robert Herrick

Two by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

David Lehman's "The Ides of March"

Li Po's "The Solitude of Night"

James Merrill's "The Octopus"

Hilaire Belloc's "Lines to a Don"

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

Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Traveling Onion"

Colley Cibber's "The Blind Boy"

Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History"

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

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

Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"

Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "Nameless Pain"

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Three by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Love Song"

Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia"

Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

John Donne's "The Flea"

William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98 & 99

William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl"

Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"

Tracy K. Smith's "Solstice"

Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"

Langston Hughes' "Harlem"

Robert Herrick's "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Work Without Hope"

Robert Browning's "Development"

Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."

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

John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"

Dana Gioia's "Entrance"

Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"

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

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

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

Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus

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

Shakespeare's "Be Absolute For Death"

Shakespeare's "Prologue" to Henry V

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

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"

Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"

Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"

Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"

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

William Carlos Williams' "January"

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

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

Robert Burns' "Auld Lang Syne"

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

Wendell Berry's "Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer"

Dorianne Laux's "Family Stories"

John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas"

Two Poems for Christmas

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

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

Ruth Moose's "My Father's Fruitcake"

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

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

Mark Doty's "Messiah (Christmas Portions)"

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

Three Poems for St. Lucy's Day

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"

Mary Jo Salter's "Advent"

Czeslaw Milosz' "Blacksmith Shop"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"

Robert Burns' "To a Mouse"

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

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

Mary Oliver's "The Mangroves"

A. E. Stallings' "Denouement"

William Blake's "Jerusalem"

Richard Howard's "Oystering"

William Matthews' "On a Diet"

Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"

Two Poems About Butter

W. S. Gilbert's "National Anthem"

Allen Tate's "Edges"

Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"

Walt Whitman to His Reader

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

Billy Collins' "Dear Reader"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"

Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"

Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals

Two for Guy Fawkes Day

Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"

Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

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

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

Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"

The Saint Crispin's Day Speech

Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"

"The Death of Nelson"

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

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

Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"

Two by Oscar Wilde

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"

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

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Rudyard Kipling's "If"

Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"

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

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

Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"

Blaise Cendrars "Menus"

Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"

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

Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"

Wendell Berry's "September 2"

Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"

Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"

Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"

Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"

Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"

Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"

Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"

Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"

Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"

John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"

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

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

Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"

Denise Levertov's "Witness"

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

Mary Oliver's "Storage"

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"

Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"

Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"

Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"

Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"

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

Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"

A. E. Stallings' "Like"

Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"

Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"

Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"

2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"

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

John Masefield's "Sea Fever"

Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"

3 Poems for Memorial Day

Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"

Seamus Heaney's "May"

The Daily Poem Is Back!

Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"

William Blake's "A Poison Tree"

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

Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"

Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"

Louise Gluck's "Averno"

Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"

The Dream of the Rood

Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"

Wendy Cope's "The Orange"

Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"

Billy Collins' "Today"

John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"

James Joyce's "Song"

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

Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"

Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"

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

Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"

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

James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"

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

Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"

Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban

Philip Larkin's "The Mower"

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

Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"

Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"

Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'

Lucy Shaw's "Mending"

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

Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"

Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"

Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"

Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"

William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"

George Santayana's "Cape Cod"

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

Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"

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

Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"

Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"

Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"

William Blake's "The Garden of Love"

Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"

Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"

Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"

Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"

Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"

Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"

Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"

Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"

Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"

William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"

Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"

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

Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"

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

Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"

Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"

Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"

Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"

Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"

Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"

John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"

Mary Oliver's "The Riders"

Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"

T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"

Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"

Amy Lowell's "Bath"

Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"

Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"

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

Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"

John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"

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

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"

Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"

Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"

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

Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"

Ted Kooser's "Mother"

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

Sharon Olds "The Race"

John Keats' "After dark vapors"

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

Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"

Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"

William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"

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

Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"

Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"

Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Grace Schulman's "Because"

Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"

Laurie Lee's "April Rise"

Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"

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

Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"

From "The Dream of the Rood"

The World's Greatest Poem

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

G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"

Amy Lowell's "Opal"

Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"

e.e. cummings' "in just"

Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"

William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"

R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"

William Wordsworth's "Written in March"

2 by Rhina Espaillat

Brutus' speech from Julius Caesar

William Vaughn Moody's "A Gray Day"

John Donne's "The Good 'Morrow"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"

Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poem III (1994)

Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"

Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"

H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"

Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"

Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur

Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"

James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"

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

Philip Larkin's "First Sight"

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

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

James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"

Kate Baer's "Motherload"

Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"

Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"

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

Edward Thomas' "Celandine"

Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Elizabeth Bishop's "Roosters"

Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"

Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"

Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"

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

Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"

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

Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison!

Emily Dickinson's Birthday

John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"

Horace's Ode I.11

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

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

Richard Wilbur's "A Black Birch in Winter"

Ted Kooser's "December 2"

Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"

Ted Kooser's "A Glint"

William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"

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

Song of Songs: Chapter 8

Wendell Berry's "1997"

2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas

Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"

Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"

Alice Cary's "Autumn"

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

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

Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”

Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"

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

Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"

Claude McKay's "Subway Winds"

Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"

Billy Collins' "The Names"

Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"

Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"

Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"

H.D.'s "Helen"

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

Hayden Carruth's "Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend"

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

Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup"

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book"

Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind"

Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc"

Billy Collins' "Aristotle"

Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox"

Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale"

Edward Thomas' "Liberty"

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

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream"

Shakespeare's "this royal throne of kings" soliloquy

Wendell Berry's "To My Mother"

Rachel Richardson's "Shearwater"

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

Franz Wright's "Auto-Lullaby"

Lynda Hull's "Insect Life of Florida"

Stanley Kunitz' "The Layers"

Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"

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

Emily Dickinson's "Of Bronze and Blaze"

Robert Frost's "The Tuft of Flowers"

William Cullen Bryant's "Summer Winds"

Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"

Malcolm Guite's "The Singing Bowl"

Kimberly Johnson's "Big Finish"

Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"

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

Sarah Teasale's "The Answer"

Li-Young Lee "From Blossoms"

Stanley Kunitz' "The Long Boat"

Wendell Berry's "How to Be a Poet"

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Revere"

4 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

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

Czesław Miłosz's "Ars Poetica"

Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats"

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

Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"

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

Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom"

Ted Kooser's "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds"

John Clare's "Summer Moods"

Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise"

"Many Thousand Gone"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer"

Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song"

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Children of the Poor"

Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"

Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks"

Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

E. Nesbit's "The Despot"

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

Andrew Marvell's "The Garden"

Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"

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

Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"

Bayard Taylor "A Night with a Wolf"

Katherine Larson's "Metamorphoses"

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

John Clare's "The Nightengale's Nest"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring"

Ted Kooser's "Abandoned Farmhouse"

Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn"

Seamus Heaney's "The Railway Children"

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

William Blake's "The Tyger"

R.S Thomas' "90th Birthday"

William Carlos Williams' "Spring Storm"

Richard Wilbur's "The Reader"

Poetry in a Time of Crisis

James Matthew Wilson's "Through the Water"

Scott Cairns' "Daily Sacrifice"

W.H. Davies' "Leisure"

Mary Oliver's "This Morning"

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

Wendell Berry's "An Anniversary"

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

Dana Gioia's "Words"