Archive - Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: Mists in Autumn

James Thomson’s visual drama

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Poem of the Day: The Headache. To Aurelia

Mary Leapor’s not-quite-drawing-room humor

Sep 18 •

Today’s Poem: The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain

Trumbull Stickney’s brief, sad intensity

Sep 17 •

Today’s Poem: The Highwayman

A bunch of lace at his throat . . .

Sep 16 •

Today’s Poem: Sailing to Byzantium

Art and eternity

Sep 13 •

Today’s Poem: The Tropics in New York

Claude McKay’s distant presences

Sep 12 •

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Today’s Poem: The Janitor’s Boy

His hair is exceedingly red

Sep 11 •

Today’s Poem: After Troy

H.D.’s fated war

Sep 10 •

Today’s Poem: The Wild Duck

John Masefield acknowledges the otherness of the non-human world

Sep 9 •

Today’s Poem: London, 1802

Sep 6 •

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Sound & Sense: Computing Poetry

An open thread for notes on what you’re thinking, reading, and doing

Sep 5 •

Today’s Poem: A History

Tom Hood’s note on obituary prose

Sep 4 •

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