You Will Know When You Get There

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.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.

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Who is the mysterious Lucy in this simple elegy by William Wordsworth?

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Why Hone Tuwhare likes working near a door.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson conjures a spectacular and sympathetic vision of a mythical creature.

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Unlock your imagination and help Billy Collins find his vanished herd.

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Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.

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John Clare gets maudlin when he falls in love with an unattainable woman.

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