Poems

A poetry reading

Poetry in the Weather Report


Anonymous
A Clothesline Poem
Christmas
He Leaves No Mark
Not Flesh of My Flesh
Surprise
Winds of March

W. H. Auden
Fairground

Sabine Baring-Gould
Now the Day is Over

Ruth Bavetta
Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin

Robert Brewster Beattie
A Way to a Happy New Year

Wendell Berry
The Future
The Peace of Wild Things

Mary Ursula Bethell
Time

Elizabeth Bishop
The End of March

Robert Browning
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

William Cullen Bryant
A Song For New Year's Eve
October

David Budbill
The First Green of Spring
The Shining Moment in the Now

Lydia Maria Child
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

Sara Clancy
When the test to predict Alzheimer's is available

Billy Collins
Reading Myself to Sleep
The Lanyard

Esther Cohen
Yesterday a Friend a Very Good Friend Said

George Cooper
October's Party

Susan Cooper
The Shortest Day

George Crabbe
From The Borough

Adelaide Crapsey
November Night

e.e. cummings
into the strenuous briefness

Walter de la Mare
Silver

Chard deNiord
The Percherons

Emily Dickinson
A Little Madness in the Spring
Snake

James Facos
Reveille

Violet Fane
In Green Old Gardens

Patricia Fargnoli
Visiting Frost's Grave
When Women Went Downtown

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Cat

Sam Walter Foss
Let Me Live in a House by the Side of the Road (partial poem)

Robert Frost
A Prayer in Spring
A Time To Talk
Dust of Snow
Good Hours
My November Guest
October
Spring Pools
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Pasture
The Tuft of Flowers

Midge Goldberg
Busy Signal
North by Northeast
Now, Here

Edgar Guest
At Christmas
Good Books
Hollyhocks
Only a Dad
Plant a Garden
Thanksgiving

Donald Hall
An Airstrip in Essex, 1960
Kicking the Leaves
Old Roses
The Things
Weeds and Peonies

Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Song for a Fifth Child

Kerry Hardie
Sleep in Summer

Linda Hasselstrom
Coffee Cup Café

James Hayford
Goats in Pasture
January Night
March Morning
The Wash
Time To Plant Trees

Oliver Herford
Untitled

Nellie Womack Hines
Home

AE Housman
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(When summer's end is nighing)

Mary Botham Howitt
Summer Song of the Strawberry-Girl

Clive James
Whitman and the Moth

Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Boy in Winter

Annie Fellows Johnston
Book Houses

Patrick Kavanagh
Raglan Road

John Keats
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

David Keig
Spring Cleaning

Galway Kinnell
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak

Rudyard Kipling
If

Ted Kooser
Father
november 9
november 10
november 18


Maxine Kumin
The poet reading her poems

Connecting the Dots
Death, Etc.
How It Is
My Father's Neckties
Seven Caveats in May
The Domestic Arrangement
The Final Poem
The Revisionist Dream
The Sunday Phone Call

Philip Larkin
Mother, Summer, I
The School in August
The Trees

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An April Day
Autumn
My Lost Youth
Snow-Flakes
The Children's Hour
Travels by the Fireside

Amy Lowell
Lilacs

James Russell Lowell
From the Vision of Sir Launfal
To The Dandelion 

Thomas Lux
It's the Little Towns I Like

Louis MacNeice
Soap Suds

Roger McGough
Mrs Moon

Claude McKay
Spring in New Hampshire

Wesley McNair
Waving Goodbye
Where I Live

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Grown-Up

John Milton
On May Morning

Dorothy Ardelle Merriam
One July Summer

Susan Moorhead
I need the dog tonight
The Botanical Gardens Gift Shop

Robert Morgan
Working in the Rain

Christopher Morley
Animal Crackers

Mary Oliver
Radio interview

A Letter from Home
April
If You Are Holding This Book
Just Around the House, Early in the Morning
Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness
Lingering in Happiness
Mindful
November
Peonies
Percy and Books (Eight)
Poppies
School
Self-Portrait
Song for Autumn
The Black Walnut Tree
The Bleeding-heart
Trout Lilies
Why I Wake Early

Grace Paley
A Walk in March
Here

Linda Pastan
The Last Uncle

Edgar Allen Poe
The Bells

Arthur Rimbaud
The Cupboard

Iva E. Reed
Leaning, Lending A Hand
Magic! Magic!
Peace: A Wainscoted Room
With Nighttime Falling

Christina Georgina Rossetti
Another Spring
Clouds
Pancake Song
Violets

Carl Sandburg
Adelaide Crapsey

May Sarton
A Late Mowing
December Moon
March-Mad
Metamorphosis
New Year Resolve
Summer Music
The Work of Happiness

William Service
Contentment

Faith Shearin
Retriever

Percy Bysshe Shelley
And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

Robert Louis Stevenson
To Any Reader

Elizabeth Maua Taylor
August

Sara Teasdale
April
May Night
September Midnight

Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill
Poem in October

Henry David Thoreau
The Summer Rain

Katharine Tynan
Slow Spring

John Updike
September

William Arthur Ward
Another Fresh New Year is Here

Clyde Watson
November

Walt Whitman
Election Day, November, 1884
Out of May's Shows Selected

Richard Wilbur

William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
This Is Just To Say

Helen Maria Winslow
August

William Wordsworth

Elizabeth Yates