The Daily Poem
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William Shakespeare’s “As fast as thou shalt wane...” (Sonnet 11)
Oct 7, 20265 min
Li Bai’s “Taking Leave of a Friend”
Oct 5, 20264 min
“Sweeney Praises the Trees”
Oct 2, 20262 min
Helen Hunt Jackson’s “September”
Sep 30, 20263 min
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Yellow Bird”
Sep 29, 20263 min
Edward Lear’s “How Pleasant To Know...”
Sep 25, 20263 min
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”
Sep 23, 20264 min
George Herbert’s “The Pulley”
Sep 21, 20264 min
Marsden Hartley’s “Salutations to a Mouse”
Sep 18, 20263 min
Annie Dillard’s “How we spend our days”
Sep 17, 20262 min
Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Sestina”
Sep 16, 20263 min
Scott Cairns’ “Chemo With Coleridge”
Sep 14, 20263 min
Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poem III, 1994”
Sep 11, 20263 min
Wendell Berry’s “The Guest”
Sep 9, 20263 min
Wendell Berry’s “In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams”
Sep 7, 20264 min
Jane Austen’s “Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend”
Sep 4, 20262 min
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Grief”
Sep 2, 20264 min
Wendell Berry’s “Testament”
Sep 1, 20265 min
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Last Leaf”
Aug 31, 20263 min
Francis Jammes’ “A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys”
Aug 28, 20263 min
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)
Aug 26, 20265 min
John Milton’s Proem to Paradise Lost
Aug 24, 20264 min
Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”
Aug 21, 20262 min
David Wagoner’s “The Junior High School Band Concert”
Aug 19, 20263 min
William Blake's "The School Boy"
Aug 17, 20262 min
Bill Watterson's "The Yukon Song"
Aug 14, 20262 min
Thomas Dekker's "The Happy Heart"
Aug 12, 20264 min
John Donne's "The Good-Morrow"
Aug 10, 20266 min
Walter de la Mare's "Silver"
Aug 7, 20264 min
St. John of the Cross's "The Soul Aflame"
Aug 5, 20262 min
Angela Morgan's "Work: A Song of Triumph"
Aug 3, 20264 min
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Consolation"
Jul 31, 20263 min
Francis Thompson's "The Kingdom of God"
Jul 29, 20265 min
Emily Dickinson's "If I can stop one heart from breaking"
Jul 27, 20263 min
Oscar Wilde’s “Portia”
Jul 24, 20264 min
Robert Service's "The Law of the Yukon"
Jul 22, 20268 min
Wisława Szymborska's "In Praise of My Sister"
Jul 20, 20263 min
Ezra Pound's "Meditatio"
Jul 17, 20262 min
Thomas Lux’s “A Little Tooth”
Jul 15, 20264 min
Herman Melville's "In the Prison Pen"
Jul 13, 20264 min
Carl Sandburg's "Back Yard"
Jul 10, 20262 min
Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something"
Jul 8, 20266 min
Edgar Guest's "A Boy and His Dad "
Jul 6, 20263 min
Richard Armour's "Parental Pride"
Jul 3, 20262 min
William McGonagall's "Attempted Assassination of the Queen"
Jul 1, 20263 min
Prudentius' "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"
Jun 29, 20266 min
Pablo Neruda's "Ode To The Artichoke"
Jun 26, 20264 min
Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"
Jun 25, 20263 min
Mary Oliver’s “No Matter What”
Jun 24, 20264 min
Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”
Jun 22, 20264 min