Good Poems

Emily Zinnemann - Regarding the home of one’s childhood, one could…
Billy Collins - The Lanyard
Derek Walcott - Midsummer: “Sonnet XLIII”
Wendell Berry - A Meeting
Philip Larkin - Aubade
Elizabeth Bishop - Crusoe in England
Christopher Logue - Gone Ladies
Les Murray - The Widower in the Country
W. H. Auden - Friday’s Child
Edwin Muir - The Horses
Stanley Kunitz - End of Summer
Philip Larkin - Unfinished Poem
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Mother
Philip Larkin - I see a girl dragged by the wrists
Keith Douglas - Canoe
W. H. Auden - If I Could Tell You
W. H. Auden - A Summer Night
Kenneth H. Ashley - Out of Work
Siegfried Sassoon - Everyone Sang
Thomas Hardy - During Wind and Rain
Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
Edward Thomas - Adlestrop
Thomas Hardy - At Castle Boterel
Rainer Maria Rilke - Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes
Lucia Perillo - Say This
Nancy Willard - How to Stuff a Pepper
Nancy Willard - The Snow Arrives After Long Silence
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay - God’s World
Gillian Clarke - Cold Knap Lake
Julia Kasdorf - What I Learned from My Mother
John Updike - Hoeing
R. S. Thomas - Farm Wife
Wendy Cope - The Orange
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Sonnet XLIII
Thomas Moore - Venetian Air
Robert Phillips - The Changed Man
Frank O’Hara - Animals
John Clare - First Love
Jane Kenyon - Staying at Grandma’s
William Wordsworth - Surprised by Joy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - from Frost at Midnight
Ben Jonson - On My First Son
John Masefield - Spanish Waters
Robert Frost - The Investment
Chidiock Tichborne - Elegy