Poem of The Day
Poem Of The Day
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The Warm and the Cold
The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
"Freezing dusk is closing
Like a slow trap of steel
On trees and roads and hills and all
That can no ...
Winter Complaint
Winter Complaint by Ogden Nash
"Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold,
I consult a physician
And I do as I am told.
I muffle ...
Candles
Candles by Constantine P. Cavafy
The days of our future stand in front of us
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively ...
Growing Old
Growing Old by Matthew Arnold
"What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for beauty to ...
By The Lake
By The Lake by Dame Edith Sitwell
"Across the flat and the pastel snow
Two people go . . . . 'And do you remember
When last we wandered ...
Doctors
Doctors by Anne Sexton
"They work with herbs
and penicillin
They work with gentleness
and the scalpel.
They dig out the cancer,
close an ...
Sea Fever
Sea Fever by John Masefield
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to ...
Windy Nights
Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and ...
Portrait of the Artist
Portrait of the Artist by Dorothy Parker
"Oh, lead me to a quiet cell
Where never footfall rankles,
And bar the window passing well,
And ...
In The Firelight
In The Firelight by Eugene Field
" The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stillness everywhere,
While like winged spirits, here and ...
Blue Winter
Blue Winter by Robert Francis
"Winter uses all the blues there are.
One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
Another blue for shadows ...
December Night
December Night by W. S. Merwin
"The cold slope is standing in darkness
But the south of the trees is dry to the touch
The heavy limbs ...












