Poetical Fragments
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'Sonnets 101-105,' by William Shakespeare (1609)
5 mins; April 13, 2025
'Sonnets 96-100,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; October 19, 2024
'Sonnets 91-95,' by William Shakespeare (1609)
6 mins; August 24, 2024
'Do Not Go Gentle,' Dylan Thomas (1951); 'If I Could Tell You,' W.H. Auden (1940); 'At Dawn,' Courage Lowrance (2022)
5 mins; July 06, 2024
'Sonnets 86-90,' by William Shakespeare (1609)
6 mins; June 16, 2024
'Comus' by John Milton (1634)
58 mins; April 28, 2024
'Sonnets 81-85,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; April 21, 2024
'Sonnets 76-80,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; March 31, 2024
'Sonnets 71-75,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; March 03, 2024
'Sonnets 66-70,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; February 25, 2024
'Annabel Lee,' 'The City in the Sea,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe
16 mins; February 11, 2024
'Sonnets 61-65,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; December 10, 2023
'Sonnets 56-60,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; December 03, 2023
'Sonnets 51-55,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; November 04, 2023
'Sonnets 46-50,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; October 22, 2023
'Sonnets 41-45,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; October 07, 2023
'The Pearl,' 'Affliction,' and 'Time,' by George Herbert (17th century)
6 mins; August 20, 2023
'Sonnets 36-40,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; July 29, 2023
'Sonnets 31-35,' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; July 15, 2023
'Natural Theology,' by Rudyard Kipling
4 mins; July 02, 2023
'The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' by Langston Hughes (1921); 'Laws for Creations' (1867), and 'Kosmos' (1860), by Walt Whitman
5 mins; June 17, 2023
'Ode to a Nightingale,' by John Keats (1820)
6 mins; June 10, 2023
'Landscapes,' by T.S. Eliot
4 mins; May 20, 2023
'To Nature,' (1836); 'On a Cataract,' (1844); 'Homesick,' (1800): by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4 mins; May 13, 2023
'Unnamed Poem' by W.H. Auden (September 1939)
4 mins; May 08, 2023
'Sonnets 26-30' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; April 30, 2023
'Sonnets 21-25' by William Shakespeare
5 mins; April 16, 2023
'The Land of Beyond' by Robert Service, 'Out Where the West Begins' by Arthur Chapman, 'There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods' by Lord Byron
4 mins; April 09, 2023
'Sonnets 16-20' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; April 02, 2023
William Shakespeare, 'Sonnets 11-15'
6 mins; March 14, 2023
'Acquainted with the Night' by Robert Frost
2 mins; February 05, 2023
'Ode' by John Keats
3 mins; December 18, 2022
'Sonnets 6-10,' by William Shakespeare
6 mins; December 10, 2022
'The Bunch of Grapes,' by George Herbert
3 mins; December 07, 2022
'All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters,' by James Joyce, and 'A Note on War Poetry,' by T.S. Eliot (1942)
3 mins; November 28, 2022
'You, Andrew Marvell,' by Archibald MacLeish
3 mins; November 13, 2022
'Mandalay' by Rudyard Kipling
4 mins; November 05, 2022
'Sonnets 1-5' by William Shakespeare (16th century)
6 mins; October 30, 2022
'Mutability' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (c. 1815)
2 mins; October 22, 2022
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
29 mins; October 16, 2022
'The Kraken' by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1830)
2 mins; October 09, 2022
'The Fall of Rome,' by W.H. Auden (January 1947)
2 mins; October 03, 2022
'On Time,' by John Milton
2 mins; September 26, 2022
'The Sacred' by Stephen Dunn
1 min; September 18, 2022
'The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' by Langston Hughes (1921)
2 mins; September 11, 2022
2022 July-August Poems
5 mins; September 07, 2022
'Atlantis' by W.H. Auden (January 1941)
4 mins; August 22, 2022
'Ode to Apollo' by John Keats
2 mins; July 25, 2022
'She was a Phantom of Delight' by William Wordsworth (1807)
2 mins; July 18, 2022
2022 June Poems
4 mins; July 10, 2022
'Preludes' by T.S. Eliot from "Prufrock and Other Observations" (1917)
3 mins; July 04, 2022
'Rebirth' by Rudyard Kipling
2 mins; June 19, 2022
2022 May Poems
3 mins; June 12, 2022
'The Raven' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797)
3 mins; June 05, 2022
2022 April Poems
4 mins; May 29, 2022
'Sonnet - To Science,' by Edgar Allan Poe
2 mins; May 22, 2022
2022 March Poems
5 mins; May 22, 2022
2022 January Poems
5 mins; March 22, 2022
2022 February Poems
4 mins; March 22, 2022
2021 December Poems
5 mins; March 22, 2022
'On the Grasshopper and Cricket,' by John Keats (1817)
2 mins; March 22, 2022
2021 November Poems
5 mins; March 22, 2022
'Jordan' by George Herbert
2 mins; February 20, 2022
2021 October Poems
4 mins; February 20, 2022
'Spirits in Bondage: Part 1 - The Prison House, "Night" through "In Prison" (1919)
5 mins; November 21, 2021
'Spirits in Bondage: Part 1 - The Prison House, "Irish Nocturne" through "Ode for New Year's Day"'
8 mins; October 10, 2021
2021 September Poems
4 mins; October 03, 2021
'Spirits in Bondage: Part 1 - The Prison House, "Satan Speaks" through "Victory"' by C.S. Lewis (1919)
6 mins; September 27, 2021
2021 September Essay - "Metaphorical Musings"
5 mins; September 27, 2021
'Spirits in Bondage: Prologue,' by C.S. Lewis (1919)
2 mins; September 13, 2021
2021 August Poems
4 mins; September 13, 2021
2021 August Essay - 'Poetry and Pain'
8 mins; September 06, 2021
2021 July Essay - 'American Poetics'
6 mins; August 22, 2021
'O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman from 'Memories of Lincoln' in 'Leaves of Grass'
2 mins; August 15, 2021
July 2021 Poems
3 mins; August 15, 2021
2021 July Essay - 'Evolutionary Aesthetics: Part II'
22 mins; August 09, 2021
2021 May Poems
5 mins; July 26, 2021
'Sonnet 64,' by William Shakespeare
2 mins; July 26, 2021
2021 May Essay - Evolutionary Aesthetics
19 mins; May 24, 2021
2021 April Poems
3 mins; May 23, 2021
'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
2 mins; April 26, 2021
'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,' translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859
18 mins; April 11, 2021
2021 March Poems
10 mins; April 11, 2021
2021 March Essay - The Activity of Poetry
20 mins; March 22, 2021
'Behind Me...' by Emily Dickinson, written c. 1863
2 mins; March 14, 2021
2021 March Essay - The Origins of Poetry
12 mins; March 08, 2021
2021 February Poems
4 mins; March 08, 2021
'Dane-Geld,' by Rudyard Kipling
2 mins; February 28, 2021
2021 February Essay - What is Poetry?
10 mins; February 24, 2021
'France: An Ode,' Samuel T. Coleridge, 1798
8 mins; February 15, 2021
2021 January Poems
6 mins; February 15, 2021
2020 December Poems
3 mins; February 15, 2021
Introduction
2 mins; February 08, 2021