Poem of The Day

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 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 Dame Edith Sitwell "Across the flat and the pastel snow Two people go . . . . 'And do you remember When last we wandered ...

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 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 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 by Dorothy Parker "Oh, lead me to a quiet cell Where never footfall rankles, And bar the window passing well, And ...

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 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 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 ...

Neighbors by Robert William Service "My neighbor has a field of wheat And I a rood of vine; And he will give me bread to eat, And I will ...

The Little Boy and the Old Man by Shel Silverstein "Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that ...