Let Evening Come Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as… (Read the rest of the poem here.) by Jane Kenyon…
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One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with… (read the rest here) by Elizabeth Bishop
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Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the daylong voice…
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Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning,…
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Love (III) Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack From my…
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A Blessing by JAMES WRIGHT Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly for…. (read the poem here)
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Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell All day long I have been working Now I am tired. I call: “Where are you?” But there is only the ……
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An Arundal Tomb by Philip Larkin Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie … http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/177058
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I…
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For Harold Bloom by A. R. Ammons I went to the summit and stood in the high nakedness: the wind tore about this way and that in confusion and its…
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