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Today’s Poem: Mists in Autumn

Poem of the Day: The Headache. To Aurelia

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

Today’s Poem: The Highwayman

Today’s Poem: Sailing to Byzantium

Today’s Poem: The Tropics in New York

Today’s Poem: The Janitor’s Boy

Today’s Poem: After Troy

Today’s Poem: The Wild Duck

Today’s Poem: London, 1802

Sound & Sense: Computing Poetry

Today’s Poem: A History

Today’s Poem: The Raven Days

Today’s Poem: A Summer Day by the Sea

Today’s Poem: Ulysses

Today’s Poem: The Loon

Today’s Poem: A New York Child’s Garden of Verses

Today’s Poem: The Clouded Morning

Today’s Poem: To an Athlete Dying Young

Today’s Poem: Delight in Disorder

Today’s Poem: A Crowded Trolley Car

Today’s Poem: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

Today’s Poem: When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted

Today’s Poem: Lucifer in Starlight

Today’s Poem: The Road Not Taken

Today’s Poem: Lochinvar

Lochinvar

Today’s Poem: The Cataract of Lodore

The Cataract of Lodore

Today’s Poem: Lucinda Matlock

Lucinda Matlock, by Edgar Lee Masters

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Today’s Poem: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Today’s Poem: Over the Hills and Far Away

Today’s Poem: War is Kind

Today’s Poem: Over the Way

Today’s Poem: One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand

Today’s Poem: Morning Song of Senlin

Today’s Poem: Go and Catch a Falling Star

Sound & Sense: Simples to Sell

Today’s Poem: An Hellespont of Cream

Today’s Poem: La Figlia che Piange

Today’s Poem: Adlestrop

Today’s Poem: Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Today’s Poem: The Birthnight

Today’s Poem: I Went to the Animal Fair

Today’s Poem: When I Am Dead, My Dearest

Today’s Poem: The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Today’s Poem: Shine, Perishing Republic

Today’s Poem: Voices of the Air

Today’s Poem: By What Mistake Were Pigeons

Today’s Poem: Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows

Today’s Poem: The Sick Rose

Today’s Poem: I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

Today’s Poem: As I Was Going to St. Ives

Today’s Poem: Summer Night, Riverside

Today’s Poem: The Weary Blues

Today’s Poem: Where Is the Pious Doer?

Today’s Poem: Old Ironsides

Today’s Poem: The Alarmed Skipper

Today’s Poem: Vanitas Vanitatum

Today’s Poem: Ozymandias

Today’s Poem: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

Today’s Poem: You Are Old, Father William

Today’s Poem: In Summer

Today’s Poem: Songs of the Soul

Today’s Poem: Hyla Brook

Today’s Poem: Telling the Bees

Today’s Poem: The Bells of Hell

Today’s Poem: I Am Raftery

Today’s Poem: Brahma

Today’s Poem: Recuerdo

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

Today’s Poem: Ode to an Expiring Frog

Today’s Poem: To Celia

Today’s Poem: God’s Grandeur

Today’s Poem: To a Mouse

Today’s Poem: Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

Today’s Poem: Bed in Summer

Today’s Poem: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Today’s Poem: The Convergence of the Twain

Today’s Poem: Sumer Is Icumen In

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

Today’s Poem: A Ballade of Suicide

Today’s Poem: A Dirge

Today’s Poem: The Men Behind the Guns

Today’s Poem: A Noiseless Patient Spider

Today’s Poem: Saturday’s Child

Today’s Poem: Shall I Wasting in Despair

Today’s Poem: All Nature Has a Feeling

Today’s Poem: At Melville’s Tomb

Today’s Poem: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Sound & Sense: An Open Thread

Today’s Poem: Clerihews

Today’s Poem: Autumn

Today’s Poem: The River-Merchant’s Wife

Today’s Poem: The Destruction of Sennacherib

Today’s Poem: Swans

Today’s Poem: Mr. Nobody

Today’s Poem: The Pool

Today’s Poem: On His Blindness

Today’s Poem: Kubla Khan

Today’s Poem: Sonnet Reversed

Today’s Poem: Confused about the Ivy League

Today’s Poem: Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter

Today’s Poem: Canterbury Tales

Today’s Poem: Vitae Summa Brevis

Today’s Poem: Love (III)

Today’s Poem: Antigonish

Today’s Poem: Life-long, Poor Browning

Today’s Poem: Sonnet 98

Today’s Poem: Break, Break, Break

Today’s Poem: Fides, Spes

Today’s Poem: archy confesses

Today’s Poem: Rose-Cheeked Laura

Today’s Poem: Science and Poetry

Today’s Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Today’s Poem: Spring and All

Today’s Poem: The Literary Lady

Today’s Poem: A Birthday

Today’s Poem: To Helen

Today’s Poem: Here

Today’s Poem: Brancusi’s Golden Bird

Today’s Poem: The Wild Party

Today’s Poem: Simple Is Hard

Today’s Poem: Easter Morning

Today’s Poem: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Today's Poem: And Ran Away Naked

The Author Reads: And Ran Away Naked

Today’s Poem: Casey at the Bat

Today’s Poem: When I Have Fears

Today’s Poem: Sugaring

Today’s Poem: Early in the Morning

Today’s Poem: Cornelia

Today’s Poem: Convalescent

Today’s Poem: Hospital Barge at Cérisy

Today’s Poem: March

Today’s Poem: Frost at Midnight

Today’s Poem: The Enchantment

Today’s Poem: The Woman of Three Cows

Today’s Poem: For Once, Then, Something

Today’s Poem: The English Epigram

Today’s Poem: Green Groweth the Holly

Today’s Poem: Go, Lovely Rose

Today’s Poem: A Man’s Requirements

Today’s Poem: The Changelings

Today’s Poem: Dover Beach

Poem of the Day: Luke Havergal

Podcast #10: Luke Havergal

Today’s Poem: To His Coy Mistress

Podcast #9: To His Coy Mistress

Today’s Poem: Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably

Today’s Poem: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

Today’s Poem: The Second Coming

Podcast #8: The Second Coming

Today’s Poem: Spots of Time

Podcast #7: Spots of Time

Today’s Poem: Grown-Up

Today’s Poem: Disobedience

Podcast #6: Disobedience

Today’s Poem: Whoso List to Hunt

Podcast #5: Whoso List to Hunt

The Commodities of Husbandrie

Podcast #4: The Commodities of Husbandrie

Podcast #3: February Afternoon

Today’s Poem: February Afternoon

Today’s Poem: Blue Squills

Podcast #2: Blue Squills

Podcast #1: In the Wilderness

Today’s Poem: In the Wilderness

Today’s Poem: Tichborne's Elegy

Today’s Poem: Requiem

Today’s Poem: A Light Snow-Fall After Frost

Today’s Poem: Retirement

Today’s Poem: The Owl and the Pussycat

Today’s Poem: Ovid’s Amores, Book One, Elegy 5

Today’s Poem: Uncredited

Today’s Poem: The Windhover

Today’s Poem: Piano

Today’s Poem: Soul Bride Oddly Dead in Queer Death Pact

Today’s Poem: There’s a Certain Slant of Light

Here We Stand

Today’s Poem: Jenny Kiss’d Me