A Secret Life – Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn
(1939 - )
A Secret Life
Why you need to have one
is not much more mysterious than
why you don't say what you think
at...
Peonies – Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
(1935 - )
Peonies
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them...
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
(1770 – 1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once...
Jerusalem – William Blake
William Blake
1757 - 1827
Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And...
Sonnet #30 – William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616
Sonnet #30
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I...
Recuerdo – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 – 1950)
Recuerdo
We were very tired, we were very merry---
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was...
God’s Grandeur – Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 – 1889
God’s Grandeur
THE world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to...
