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Some of My Favorite Poetry
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Famous Poets

Allen, Elizabeth Akers
Arnold, Matthew
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Byron, George Gordon
Carruth, William Herbert
Donne, John
Frost, Robert
Herrick, Robert
Housman, A. E.
Key, Francis Scott
Kilmer, Joyce
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Pound, Ezra
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Spafford, Horatio
St. Vincent Millay, Edna
Tennyson, Alfred
Thompson, Francis
Thoreau, Henry David
Whiting, William

Not So Famous (Family & Friends & Me)

Groover, Brian
Groover, Frances
Groover, Grace
Groover, Henry
Groover, Paul
Groover, Robert

Everyone Else

Coleman, Helena
Cornell, Margaret
Dogg, J
MacArthur, Douglas
Matthews, Emily
Moore, Clement
Ogden, Maurice
Snair, Elizabeth
Turner, Steve

 

Famous Poets


Allen, Elizabeth Akers

At Last (At last, when all the summer shine)
Rock me to sleep (Weary of flinging my soul--wealth away)

Arnold, Matthew

A Wish (I ask not that my bed of death)
Consolation (Mist clogs the sunshine.)
Dover Beach (The sea is calm tonight.)
East London ('Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead)
Growing Old (What is it to grow old?)
Hayeswater (A region desolate and wild.)
Longing (Come to me in my dreams, and then)
Philomela (Hark! ah, the nightingale -)
Requiescat (Strew on her roses, roses,)
Shakespeare (Others abide our question. Thou art free.)
The Forsaken Merman (Come, dear children, let us away;)
The Future (A wanderer is man from his birth.)
The Last Word (Creep into thy narrow bed,)
The Pagan World (In his cool hall, with haggard eyes,)
The Scholar Gypsy (Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;)
The Song of Empedocles (And you, ye stars,)
The Voice (As the kindling glances,)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Sonnets from the Portugese I: (I thought once how Theocritus had sung)
Sonnets from the Portugese II: (But only three in all God's universe)
Sonnets from the Portugese III: (Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !)
Sonnets from the Portugese IV: (Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,)
Sonnets from the Portugese V: (I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,)
Sonnets from the Portugese VI: (Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand)
Sonnets from the Portugese VII: (The face of all the world is changed, I think,)
Sonnets from the Portugese VIII: (What can I give thee back, O liberal)
Sonnets from the Portugese IX: (Can it be right to give what I can give ?)
Sonnets from the Portugese X: (Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed)
Sonnets from the Portugese XI: (And therefore if to love can be desert,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XII: (Indeed this very love which is my boast,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XIII: (And wilt thou have me fashion into speech)
Sonnets from the Portugese XIV: (If thou must love me, let it be for nought)
Sonnets from the Portugese XV: (Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear)
Sonnets from the Portugese XVI: (And yet, because thou overcomest so,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XVII: (My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes)
Sonnets from the Portugese XVIII: (I never gave a lock of hair away)
Sonnets from the Portugese XIX: (The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise;)
Sonnets from the Portugese XX: (Beloved, my Beloved, when I think)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXI: (Say over again, and yet once over again,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXII: (When our two souls stand up erect and strong,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXIII: (Is it indeed so ? If I lay here dead,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXIV: (Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXV: (A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXVI: (I lived with visions for my company)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXVII: (My own Beloved, who hast lifted me)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXVIII: (My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white !)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXIX: (I think of thee !--my thoughts do twine and bud)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXX: (I see thine image through my tears to-night,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXI: (Thou comest ! all is said without a word.)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXII: (The first time that the sun rose on thine oath)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXIII: (Yes, call me by my pet-name ! let me hear)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXIV: (With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXV: (If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXVI: (When we met first and loved, I did not build)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXVII: (Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXVIII: (First time he kissed me, he but only kissed)
Sonnets from the Portugese XXXIX: (Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace)
Sonnets from the Portugese XL: (Oh, yes ! they love through all this world of ours !)
Sonnets from the Portugese XLI: (I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,)
Sonnets from the Portugese XLII: (' My future will not copy fair my past'--)
Sonnets from the Portugese XLIII: (How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways.)
Sonnets from the Portugese XLIV: (Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers)

Browning, Robert

The Englishman in Italy (Fortu, Fortu, my beloved one,)
Any Wife to Any Husband (I)
Boot and Saddle (Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!)
Confessions (What is he buzzing in my ears?)
Home Thoughts, from Abroad (Oh, to be in England)
Home Thoughts, from the Sea (Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;)
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix (I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;)
My Last Duchess (Ferrara)
My Star (All that I know)
Never The Time And The Place (Never the time and the place)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church (Rome, 15 -)

Byron, George Gordon

She Walks in Beauty (She walks in beauty, like the night)
So, We'll Go No More a Roving (So, we'll go no more a roving)
The Destruction of Sennacherib (The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,)
When We Two Parted (When we two parted)

Carruth, William Herbert

Each in his own Tongue (A fire-mist and a planet,)

Donne, John

Elergy XVI: On His Mistress (By our first strange and fatal interview,)
Holy Sonnet X (Death, be not proud, though some have called thee)
Song (Go and catch a falling star,)
The Apparition (When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead,)
The Flea (Mark but this flea, and mark in this)
Woman's Constancy (Now thou hast loved me one whole day,)

Frost, Robert

Canis Major (The great Overdog)
Fire and Ice (Some say the world will end in fire,)
Mending Wall (SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Nature's first green is gold,)
On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations (You'll wait a long, long time for anything much)
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight (When I spread out my hand here today,)
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (Whose woods these are I think I know.)
The Beat (The bear puts both arms around the tree above her)
The Road Not Taken (Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,)
The Tuft of Flowers (I WENT to turn the grass once after one)

Herrick, Robert

An Epitaph Upon a Virgin (Here a solemn fast we keep,)
To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon (Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night)
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,)
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast (Have ye beheld (with much delight))

Housman, A. E.

A Shropshire Lad (From far, from eve and morning)

Key, Francis Scott

The Star Spangled Banner (Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light)

Kilmer, Joyce

Trees (I THINK that I shall never see)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Paul Revere's Ride (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Pound, Ezra

Ballad of the Goodly Fere (Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all)

Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare's Sonnets I: (From fairest creatures we desire increase,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets II: (When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets III: (Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest)
Shakespeare's Sonnets IV: (Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend)
Shakespeare's Sonnets V: (Those hours, that with gentle work did frame)
Shakespeare's Sonnets VI: (Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets VII: (Lo! in the orient when the gracious light)
Shakespeare's Sonnets VIII: (Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?)
Shakespeare's Sonnets IX: (Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets X: (For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XI: (As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XII: (When I do count the clock that tells the time,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XIII: (O! that you were your self; but, love you are)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XIV: (Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XV: (When I consider every thing that grows)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XVI: (But wherefore do not you a mightier way)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XVII: (Who will believe my verse in time to come,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XVIII: (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XIX: (Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XX: (A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXI: (So is it not with me as with that Muse,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXII: (My glass shall not persuade me I am old,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXIII: (As an unperfect actor on the stage,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXIV: (Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXV: (Let those who are in favour with their stars)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXVI: (Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXVII: (Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXVIII: (How can I then return in happy plight,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXIX: (When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXX: (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXI: (Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXII: (If thou survive my well-contented day,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXIII: (Full many a glorious morning have I seen)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXIV: (Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXV: (No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXVI: (Let me confess that we two must be twain,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXVII: (As a decrepit father takes delight)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXVIII: (How can my muse want subject to invent,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XXXIX: (O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XL: (Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLI: (Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLII: (That thou hast her it is not all my grief,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLIII: (When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLIV: (If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLV: (The other two, slight air, and purging fire)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLVI: (Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLVII: (Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLVIII: (How careful was I when I took my way,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XLIX: (Against that time, if ever that time come,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets L: (How heavy do I journey on the way,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LI: (Thus can my love excuse the slow offence)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LII: (So am I as the rich, whose blessed key,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LIII: (What is your substance, whereof are you made,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LIV: (O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LV: (Not marble, nor the gilded monuments)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LVI: (Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LVII: (Being your slave what should I do but tend,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LVIII: (That god forbid, that made me first your slave,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LIX: (If there be nothing new, but that which is)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LX: (Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXI: (Is it thy will, thy image should keep open)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXII: (Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXIII: (Against my love shall be as I am now,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXIV: (When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXV: (Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXVI: (Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXVII: (Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXVIII: (Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXIX: (Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXX: (That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXI: (No longer mourn for me when I am dead)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXII: (O! lest the world should task you to recite)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXIII: (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXIV: (But be contented: when that fell arrest)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXV: (So are you to my thoughts as food to life,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXVI: (Why is my verse so barren of new pride,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXVII: (Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXVIII: (So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXIX: (Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXX: (O! how I faint when I of you do write,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXI: (Or I shall live your epitaph to make,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXII: (I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXIII: (I never saw that you did painting need,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXIV: (Who is it that says most, which can say more,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXV: (My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXVI: (Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXVII: (Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXVIII: (When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets LXXXIX: (Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XC: (Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCI: (Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCII: (But do thy worst to steal thyself away,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCIII: (So shall I live, supposing thou art true,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCIV: (They that have power to hurt, and will do none,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCV: (How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCVI: (Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCVII: (How like a winter hath my absence been)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCVIII: (From you have I been absent in the spring,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets XCIX: (The forward violet thus did I chide:)
Shakespeare's Sonnets C: (Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CI: (O truant Muse what shall be thy amends)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CII: (My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CIII: (Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CIV: (To me, fair friend, you never can be old,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CV: (Let not my love be call'd idolatry,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CVI: (When in the chronicle of wasted time)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CVII: (Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CVIII: (What's in the brain, that ink may character,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CIX: (O! never say that I was false of heart,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CX: (Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXI: (O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXII: (Your love and pity doth the impression fill,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXIII: (Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXIV: (Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXV: (Those lines that I before have writ do lie,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXVI: (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXVII: (Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXVIII: (Like as, to make our appetite more keen,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXIX: (What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXX: (That you were once unkind befriends me now,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXI: ('Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXII: (Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXIII: (No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXIV: (If my dear love were but the child of state,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXV: (Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXVI: (O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXVII: (In the old age black was not counted fair,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXVIII: (How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXIX: (The expense of spirit in a waste of shame)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXX: (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXI: (Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXII: (Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXIII: (Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXIV: (So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXV: (Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,')
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXVI: (If thy soul check thee that I come so near,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXVII: (Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXVIII: (When my love swears that she is made of truth,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXXIX: (O! call not me to justify the wrong)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXL: (Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLI: (In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLII: (Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLIII: (Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLIV: (Two loves I have of comfort and despair,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLV: (Those lips that Love's own hand did make,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLVI: (Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLVII: (My love is as a fever longing still,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLVIII: (O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CXLIX: (Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CL: (O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CLI: (Love is too young to know what conscience is,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CLII: (In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CLIII: (Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:)
Shakespeare's Sonnets CLIV: (The little Love-god lying once asleep,)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Love's Philosophy (The fountains mingle with the river)
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (The everlasting universe of things)
Ozymandius (I met a traveller from an antique land,)

Spafford, Horatio

It Is Well with My Soul (When peace like a river attendeth my way,)

St. Vincent Millay, Edna

Extravagance (My candle burns at both ends;)
God's World (O WORLD, I cannot hold thee close enough!)

Tennyson, Alfred

Crossing the Bar (Sunset and evening star,)
Summer Night (Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Half a league, half a league,)
To the Rev. F.D.Maurice (Come, when no graver cares employ,)
Ulysses (It little profits that an idle king,)

Thompson, Francis

The Hound of Heaven (I fled Him down the nights and down the days)

Thoreau, Henry David

I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied (I am a parcel of vain strivings tied)
Low-Anchored Cloud (Low-anchored cloud,)
Smoke (Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,)

Whiting, William

The Navy Hymn (Eternal Father, strong to save)

Not So Famous (Family & Friends & Me)


Groover, Brian

"Who Was that Masked Man?" (As you wander through changing life,)
Always Daddy's Girl (With golden hair, glass slippers too,)
Broken, Blind, and Lame (Do you remember the story of the man who gave the greatest feast around?)
Candlelight (See how many candles burning?)
Dawn, with Grace and Trad (Those who would deny the Maker's hand,)
Death of an Idol (It stands with gruesome, grinning face)
Holy Saturday (This darkened day twixt cross and crown)
On the Opening of a Library (To dream, to find a larger mind)
Pied Piper (All-weather piper, whose songs on high)
Road Song (Come, O Traveler, walk with me)
Strength (The wave stands tall in crested fury)
The Balm (A short good-bye, a stricken soul)
The Glory of Trees (The glory of trees is not in saplings,)
Trad (Sleepy snuggles warm before the sun)

Groover, Frances

For Brian's Family (I looked out this morning)
Observation (When we sing and make up songs)

Groover, Grace

Candles (Your life is like a candle,)
Courtney Muse (The horror of the crash last night,)
Passion (The ragged breath)

Groover, Henry

Be a man (Do what you must, be a man, not a boy)
Fear (What fear have I of death, pain, dismemberment?)
Lady of the Sea (Alone, adrift upon the sea)
Landscapes (What wellspring of unhurt emotion)
Lilac Lady (I met a lady sweet and fair)
Lovers On the Shore (He cannot wake nor does he sleep)
Magic Mirror (She sits by the window, weeping,)
Mother and Child (On her lap tow-headed child)
Release (Like a wind caressing the meadow,)
Scale the Rainbow (People on the street)
Sunset At Llyn Elsi (I have passed her shoulder round,)
The Coming of Dawn (Dawn steals the night)
Time and Tide (Does he, as eldritch thoughts unfold)
To Write About Pain (Mortally wounded, pierced through the heart)
Where Are the Tears? (Where are the tears I do not shed?)
Where is the wild man? (The lover, spurned, drank hemlock and died.)

Groover, Paul

My Heart Remembers (In the coffee shop at Barstow and Vine,)
The Builder of the House (The old broken house sits alone on it's hill,)

Groover, Robert

Advent 1993 (The sun has turned, approaching every day,)
After the hurricane in '62 (After the hurricane in '62)
All of my courage isn't quite enough (All of my courage isn't quite enough)
Angel Answers Accidie (Some days a thick black fog is all I see,)
Autumnal Villanelle (After a year the well-plowed Earth repents,)
Christ, am I really doing this again? (Christ, am I really doing this again?)
Clarified by the stillbirth of desire, (Clarified by the stillbirth of desire,)
Departure (A spot of blood unleashed a flood of fear;)
Dialogue in Hell (Damn them, they're learning from their past. I hate)
Even the smallest things luxuriate (Even the smallest things luxuriate)
For Jack (He listens and he waits, year after year,)
For Terri (Let go, float free, let God's breath carry you:)
Forgive me all the worthless good advice (Forgive me all the worthless good advice)
From time to time the large things idly twitch (From time to time the large things idly twitch)
God, who made minds for books and Book for minds, (God, who made minds for books and Book for minds,)
How can I give my poisoned gifts away? (How can I give my poisoned gifts away?)
How can this loafer be a child of God? (How can this loafer be a child of God?)
I don't think God needs help from human pride (I don't think God needs help from human pride)
If I should die this very night: (If I should die this very night:)
Insouciantly we drink our beer (Insouciantly we drink our beer)
Jesus my Lord, please help me dare to show (Jesus my Lord, please help me dare to show)
Love's not love that dares not scintillate: (Love's not love that dares not scintillate:)
My God, you always find me out, (My God, you always find me out,)
My hands are roped together, back to back (My hands are roped together, back to back)
Oceans of love surround us, light-years wide (Oceans of love surround us, light-years wide)
On Reading a Sonnet of Keats (This immortality, this meteor spark)
Piss on you all! Am I supposed to bark, (Piss on you all! Am I supposed to bark,)
Psalm 98 (sort of) (Sing to our Lord a glad new song)
State Fair (Glory to God for new life everywhere!)
Still hesitating I approach the dance (Still hesitating I approach the dance)
Teach me to live - I hate my living death (Teach me to live - I hate my living death)
Thank God for pleasures of a cloudy day: (Thank God for pleasures of a cloudy day:)
The universe (so Phys.Rev.Lettrists say) (The universe (so Phys.Rev.Lettrists say))
To my Books (I seldom see the facts I need to face -)
To Our Girls (One busy day, nearly a decade gone,)
We sometimes catch a melody that haunts (We sometimes catch a melody that haunts)
What glory shines in morning skies (What glory shines in morning skies)
Where do the clouds rush to so urgently? (Where do the clouds rush to so urgently?)
Yellow Dog Howling Blues (She threw us in the dumpster)
The Pole Star, guide to sailors, glitters clear. (The Pole Star, guide to sailors, glitters clear.)
Sonnet 31 (There's almost nothing to a virus core,)
Sonnet 46 (The sun has turned, approaching every day,)
Poetry lurks round every random corner, (Poetry lurks round every random corner,)
Sonnet 58 (What cryptic winter embryos we are!)

Everyone Else


Coleman, Helena

More Lovely Grows the Earth (More lovely grows the earth)

Cornell, Margaret

Twin Flames (Twin flames drawn together.)

Dogg, J

Soul-Mate (Okay, I've been in love before)

MacArthur, Douglas

Build Me a Son . . . (Build me a son, O Lord,)

Matthews, Emily

I Never Dreamed (I never dreamed one smile could fill,)
What is a Soul Mate? (If you have found a smile)

Moore, Clement

A Visit From St. Nicholas ('Twas the night before Christmas)

Ogden, Maurice

Hangman (Into our town the Hangman came)

Snair, Elizabeth

There Was no Snow in Bethlehem (There was no snow in Bethlehem;)

Turner, Steve

Creed (This is the creed I have written on behalf of all us.)