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More Limericks
2 mins; August 15, 2024
Beard Limericks
2 mins; August 14, 2024
Two "Practical" Limericks
1 min; August 13, 2024
Edward Lear's "There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ"
4 mins; August 12, 2024
Nazim Hikmet's "On Living"
11 mins; August 09, 2024
Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness"
5 mins; August 08, 2024
T. S. Eliot's "Old Deuteronomy"
5 mins; August 07, 2024
Robert Penn Warren's "Bearded Oaks"
9 mins; August 06, 2024
Bruce Lansky's "Confession"
5 mins; August 05, 2024
Two by Ogden Nash
2 mins; August 02, 2024
Oliver Herford's "The Platypus"
6 mins; August 01, 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
10 mins; July 31, 2024
Margaret Wise Brown's "Wild Black Crows"
3 mins; July 30, 2024
Katherine Craster's "The Centipede's Dilemma"
5 mins; July 29, 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice"
7 mins; July 26, 2024
"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 4
5 mins; July 25, 2024
"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 3
3 mins; July 24, 2024
"The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 2
2 mins; July 23, 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" Pt. 1
5 mins; July 22, 2024
John Hollander's "A Watched Pot"
9 mins; July 19, 2024
William Blake's "The Divine Image"
8 mins; July 18, 2024
John Milton's "When I consider how my light is spent"
12 mins; July 17, 2024
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"
6 mins; July 16, 2024
Ben Jonson's "Though I be young"
8 mins; July 15, 2024
Amy Clampitt's "The Godfather Returns to Color TV"
8 mins; July 12, 2024
Siegfried Sassoon's "Picture-Show"
5 mins; July 11, 2024
Hart Crane's "Chaplinesque"
7 mins; July 10, 2024
Joseph Stanton's "Edward Hopper's 'New York Movie'"
9 mins; July 09, 2024
Cornelius Eady's "Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet"
9 mins; July 08, 2024
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's "America, I Sing You Back"
5 mins; July 05, 2024
Two for the Fourth
5 mins; July 04, 2024
Grace Schulman's "American Solitude"
17 mins; July 03, 2024
John Ciardi's "Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast"
2 mins; July 02, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"
8 mins; July 01, 2024
Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,"
11 mins; June 28, 2024
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Lawyers' Ways"
5 mins; June 27, 2024
Adam's "Bone of My Bone"
6 mins; June 26, 2024
William Butler Yeats' "Brown Penny"
7 mins; June 25, 2024
Marianne Moore's "Silence"
9 mins; June 24, 2024
Matthew Hollis' "The Diomedes"
10 mins; June 21, 2024
Jim Daniels' "Short-Order Cook"
8 mins; June 20, 2024
Lucille Clifton's "cutting greens"
9 mins; June 19, 2024
Robert Graves' "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child"
4 mins; June 18, 2024
Carl Sandburg's "Fog"
4 mins; June 17, 2024
Donald Davidson's "Lee in the Mountains" Pt. 2
5 mins; June 14, 2024
Donald Davidson's "Lee in the Mountains" Pt. 1
6 mins; June 13, 2024
Robert Bly's "The Moon"
7 mins; June 12, 2024
Jane Kenyon's "Otherwise"
7 mins; June 11, 2024
R. S. Gwynn's "Shakespearean Sonnet"
7 mins; June 10, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 ("They that have power")
10 mins; June 07, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 ("My love is as a fever...")
10 mins; June 06, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 ("That time of year...")
6 mins; June 05, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 ("Not marble...")
7 mins; June 04, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee...")
8 mins; June 03, 2024
Oliver Herford's "The Early Owl"
3 mins; May 31, 2024
A. A. Milne's "Bad Sir Brian Botany"
4 mins; May 30, 2024
Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Bed is a Boat"
4 mins; May 29, 2024
Hilaire Belloc's "Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably"
8 mins; May 28, 2024
Hilaire Belloc's "On the Gift of a Book to a Child"
3 mins; May 27, 2024
Bonus: "Morituri Salutamus" in full
16 mins; May 25, 2024
Selections From Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus"
8 mins; May 24, 2024
Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill"
6 mins; May 23, 2024
C. P. Cavafy's "Che Fece...Il Gran Rifiuto"
9 mins; May 22, 2024
Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"
8 mins; May 21, 2024
John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"
10 mins; May 20, 2024
Matsuo BashĹŤ's Spring Haiku
9 mins; May 17, 2024
Thomas Nashe's "Spring, the sweet spring"
8 mins; May 16, 2024
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"
8 mins; May 15, 2024
E. E. Cummings' "[O sweet spontaneous]"
7 mins; May 14, 2024
Phillis Levin's "End of April
7 mins; May 13, 2024
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
5 mins; May 10, 2024
Robert Southey's "His Books"
10 mins; May 09, 2024
William Butler Yeats' "When You Are Old"
5 mins; May 08, 2024
John Keats' "How many bards gild the lapses of time"
9 mins; May 07, 2024
Dorothy Wordsworth's "Loving and Liking"
9 mins; May 06, 2024
Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the truth but tell it slant–"
3 mins; May 03, 2024
H. D.'s "Eurydice"
6 mins; May 02, 2024
C. S. Lewis' "Stephen to Lazarus"
5 mins; May 01, 2024
Paul Ruffin's "We Write Nasty Notes at the Academic Conference"
6 mins; April 30, 2024
A. E. Stallings' "Dead Language Lesson"
9 mins; April 29, 2024
Scott Cairns' "Musée"
9 mins; April 26, 2024
Ted Kooser's "After Years"
7 mins; April 25, 2024
T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
9 mins; April 24, 2024
William Shakespeare's "It Was a Lover and His Lass"
7 mins; April 23, 2024
Louise GlĂĽck's "The Wild Iris"
9 mins; April 22, 2024
Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"
11 mins; April 19, 2024
William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"
10 mins; April 18, 2024
John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"
7 mins; April 17, 2024
Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
10 mins; April 16, 2024
Wendell Berry's "The Plan"
4 mins; April 15, 2024
Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"
12 mins; April 12, 2024
Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"
9 mins; April 11, 2024
Elizabeth Jennings' "Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits"
10 mins; April 10, 2024
Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"
6 mins; April 09, 2024
Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"
12 mins; April 08, 2024
Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
7 mins; April 05, 2024
Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"
10 mins; April 04, 2024
George Herbert's "The Church-floore"
10 mins; April 03, 2024
Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"
5 mins; April 02, 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"
8 mins; April 01, 2024
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