The Daily Poem

Ted Kooser's "How to Foretell a Change in the Weather"

Ted Kooser's "How to Foretell a Change in the Weather"

Linda Pastan's "The Dogwoods"

Lewis Carroll's "You Are Old, Father William"

John Donne's "The Relic"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Last of the Old Gods"

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Fable"

Geoffrey Hill's "Genesis"

Prince Hal's soliloquy from Henry IV, pt.1 ("herein will I imitate the sun")

Phineas Fletcher's "A Litany"

Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam..." 1-3

Kenn Nesbitt's "Our Teacher's Not a Zombie"

Donald Hall's "An Old Life"

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters"

Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Request"

Linda Pastan's "Something About the Trees"

Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs"

Emily Dickinson's "How soft a Caterpillar steps —"

Randall Jarrell's "The Lost World"

Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of the Clampherdown”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Fire of Drift-wood"

Miroslav Holub's "Napoleon"

John Keats' "To Sleep"

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt..."

Live: William Carlos Williams' "The Fool's Song"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Prize Jelly"

Malcolm Guite's "Transfiguration"

Terrence Hayes’ “The Same City”

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

Philip Appleman's "Anniversary"

John Donne's "The Anniversary"

Carole Boston Weatherford's "Sidewalk Chalk"

Wendell Berry's "A Parting"

Karina Borowicz's "September Tomatoes"

Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"

William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"

Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"

"Old English Riddle no. 26" (trans. Roy M. Liuzza)

Louise Imogen Guiney's "John Brown: A Paradox"

Tracy K. Smith’s “The Good Life”

John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

Simon Curtis's "Satie, at the End of Term"

Timothy Murphy's "Mentor"

John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields"

Emily Dickinson's "The saddest noise, the sweetest noise"

Bill Knott's "An Instructor's Dream"

Andrew Barton Paterson's "The Man From Ironbark"