Archive - Poems Ancient and Modern

Here We Still Stand

Remembering our opening manifesto — and “Jenny Kiss’d Me” — a year on

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Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: A Flower Given to My Daughter

Rose-frail and fair

Jan 28 •

Today’s Poem: A Winter Blue Jay

Who can tell the range of joy / Or set the bounds of beauty?

Jan 27 •

Today’s Poem: Bellbirds

Henry Kendall’s spot of Australian time

Jan 24 •

Today’s Poem: Andromeda

Sweetly and solemnly sang she, and planned new lessons for mortals

Jan 23 •

Today’s Poem: January 22nd, Missolonghi

The Spartan borne upon his shield / Was not more free

Jan 22 •

Today’s Poem: I Sought the Wood in Winter

Willa Cather’s vision of immutable beauty

Jan 21 •

Today’s Poem: As Kingfishers Catch Fire

What I do is me; for that I came.

Jan 20 •

Today’s Poem: Eldorado

Edgar Allan Poe and the ballad’s fruitless quest

Jan 17 •

Today’s Poem: Winter: A Dirge

The exterior cold that matches the interior chill

Jan 16 •

Today’s Poem: The Cremation of Sam McGee

The competence of comic verse

Jan 15 •

Today’s Poem: Snow

The bare black places lie / Too near the sky

Jan 14 •

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