Category Archives: Poems
The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s [...]
Digging
– Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as [...]
Have You Earned Your Tomorrow?
by Edgar Guest Is anybody happier because you passed his way? Does anyone remember that [...]
Good Timber
by Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and [...]
The Fish
– Elizabeth Bishop I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half [...]
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s [...]
Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?”
by Eve Merriam take the leaf of a tree trace its exact shape the outside [...]
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have [...]
The Smile
Ted Hughes Began under the groan of the oldest forest It ran through the clouds, [...]
“AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS”
By Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a [...]