Archive - Poems Ancient and Modern

June 2025

Today’s Poem: Whoso List to Hunt

Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am . . .

Jun 30 •

Our Table of Contents

Jun 28 •

Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: Preludes

Wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh

Jun 27 •

Today’s Poem: Divine Epigrams

Four selections from Richard Crashaw

Jun 26 •

Today’s Poem: O hour of all hours

We may live without poetry, music, and art . . .

Jun 25 •

Today’s Poem: The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi

’Tis now full tide ’tween night and day

Jun 24 •

Today’s Poem: Pied Beauty

All things counter, original, spare, strange

Jun 23 •

Today’s Poem: My Heart Leaps Up

Bound each to each by natural piety

Jun 20 •

Today’s Poem: Emancipation

Celebrate freely this day of all days

Jun 19 •

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