Archive - Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: The Owl

Edward Thomas, salted and sobered

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February 2025

Today’s Poem: The Children’s Hour

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the risk of feeling

Feb 28 •

Today’s Poem: The Leaden-Eyed

It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull

Feb 27 •

Today’s Poem: Winter-Time

Tree and house, and hill and lake, / Are frosted like a wedding-cake

Feb 26 •

Today’s Poem: Here and There

Reading Hannah More

Feb 25 •

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Karen Swallow Prior

Today’s Poem: On My First Son

Ben Jonson’s farewell to joy

Feb 24 •

Today’s Poem: To a Skylark

I am listening now

Feb 21 •

Today’s Poem: I would I might forget that I am I

George Santayana’s self-consciousness

Feb 20 •

Today’s Poem: Now at Liberty

Dorothy Parker gives herself a little more rope

Feb 19 •

Today’s Poem: Street Light

John Crowe Ransom’s moral nightfall

Feb 18 •

Today’s Poem: Ode to the Confederate Dead

The high modernist project

Feb 17 •

Today’s Poem: Lines Suggested by the Fourteenth of February

A Victorian Valentine’s Day Card

Feb 14 •

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