Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
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Farmhand
Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.
ReadSonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.
ReadAfternoon with Irish Cows
Unlock your imagination and help Billy Collins find his vanished herd.
ReadThose Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.
ReadThe Buck in the Snow
Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.
ReadFirst Love
John Clare gets maudlin when he falls in love with an unattainable woman.
ReadLondon Snow
Put on your gloves and hat and come play in the snow with Robert Bridges.
ReadThe Sea Eats the Land at Home
Kofi Awoonor summons his oral heritage in this mournful poetic lament.
ReadThe Listeners
Walter De La Mere scares his children – and us – with this mysterious fireside fairytale.
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