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The Daily Poem
The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some li...
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W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"
Today’s poem began its life as a bit of black humor, but lives on as a raw and relatable expression of real grief. Happy reading.
Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"
Today’s poem juxtaposes scenes of summer warmth to scenes of torrential bluster with a seamlessness that would make the best film editor jealous. Happ...
William Carlos Williams' "Love Song"
Today’s poem captures the agonies and ecstacies of thinking about the absent beloved. Happy reading.
Rhina P. Espaillat’s “Butchering”
Today’s poem employs an image worthy of Homer to touch the stark reality of a mother’s intuition. Happy reading.
Beowulf prepares for battle
Today’s poem is a selection from the Old English, Beowulf, translated by R. M. Liuzza. In these lines, Beowulf prepares for a harrowing showdown with...
T. S. Eliot's "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
Today’s poem answers the question: if cats are the animal world’s “Napoleon of crime,” who is the cat world’s “Napoleon of crime?” Happy reading.
Robert Graves' Proem to The Iliad
Today’s poem comes from Graves’ verse/prose rendering of Homer’s Iliad, The Anger of Achilles, and highlights the inglorious causes of the Trojan War’...
Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Today’s poem is a sonnet for a war-torn world with a collapsing center.
“…As the oldest of four children born in rapid succession, Wilfred deve...
Wendy Cope's "Men and Their Boring Arguments"
Today’s poem goes out to all of the women who have been stuck between two pugilistic men at a dinner party. Happy reading.
Anna Kamienska's "On the Threshold of the Poem"
Today’s poem asks: “What happens inside a poem?” Happy reading.
Charles Lamb's "Cleanliness"
Today’s poem is a seemingly innocuous enjoinder to handwashing that nevertheless invites a deeper inspection. Happy reading.
Friedrich von Schiller's "Light and Warmth"
Anyone with children can recognize the degree to which we enter this life “Warm with the noble vows of youth,/Hallowing [one’s] true arm to the truth....
T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday (III)"
Today’s poem is a selection from Eliot’s profound contemplation of conversion and repentance. Happy reading.
Thomas Campion's "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings"
In today’s poem, the composer-poet identifies with an object he knows inside and out. Happy reading.
Aileen Fisher's "I Like It When It’s Mizzly"
Today’s poem is pure language joy. Happy reading.
Marianne Moore's "No Swan So Fine"
Today’s poem pits art against reality, with the French monarchy as the only clear loser. Happy reading.
Robert Frost's "Not to Keep"
If Robert Frost were a musician, today’s poem might be a B-side to one of his better-known poems. Happy reading.
Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats”
“may you kiss / the wind then turn from it” Today’s poem is a benediction for boats and, maybe, a lot of other things. Happy reading.
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks"
Today’s poem is a contemplation of sometimes-essential footwear that blossoms unexpectedly into a proverb on utility and beauty. Happy reading.
William Stafford's "A Message from the Wanderer"
“That’s the way everything in the world is waiting.” Happy reading.
F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"
Today’s poem falls somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of haiku and English ode. Happy reading.
Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"
Today’s poem is a song of (sometimes) hidden nearness. Happy reading.
Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"
Today’s poem is a frank examination of words and their paradoxical power to create and destroy intimacy, bringing forth the deepest self or walling it...
Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
Today’s poem has taken on a life of its own; we return, for a moment, to its humble beginnings. Happy reading.
Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"
Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected Poems, no mo...
Wendell Berry's "Sabbath IV, 1996"
I may be the only other man who has had some version of the cold-night-existential experience described in today’s poem, but I doubt it. Happy reading...
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Feast”
Today’s poem is one in which “increase of appetite grows by what it feeds on” (or so she says). Happy reading.
William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior"
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he/That every man in arms should wish to be?” In today’s poem, Wordsworth asks unfamiliar questions. Happy reading.
William Blake's "The Ecchoing Green"
Today’s poem is a snapshot of a lost world. Happy reading.
Alfred Noyes' "Daddy Fell Into the Pond"
Today’s poem reminds us of a father’s value. Happy reading.
Paul J. Pastor's "The Oracle"
Today’s poem offers a new year’s resolution worth keeping. Happy reading.
Philip Appleman’s “To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year”
It’s that time of (new) year again. Happy reading.
A. A. Milne’s “King John’s Christmas”
As we say farewell to the Christmas season, today’s poem playfully reminds us that the feast is for the good and bad alike. Happy reading.
Clare Bevan's "Just Doing My Job"
A poem of innocence and experience for the turning of the year. Happy reading.
Cecil Day-Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"
A merry continuation of Christmas, and happy reading!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"
Merry Christmas! The Daily Poem will return next week!
Anna Kamienska's "Elijah Widow"
Today’s poem intimates that it may be better to receive than to give. Happy reading.
Helen Maria Williams' "To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris"
Today’s poem is an ode to the power of holiday baked goods. Happy reading.
W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 5
Today’s episode brings us to the eternal aftermath of Christmas and the end of For the Time Being. Happy reading.
W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 4
In today’s installment, St. Simeon has finally seen the light and humanity struggles against itself. Happy reading.