Poetry To Go

06:34 | Jun 25th, 2018

A sonnet pondering the inevitable passing of life's bloom and flower, and the question each of us must face as we aging creep our way toward death.

03:32 | May 30th, 2018

Ever feel like our 21st century living distances us from what really matters in life? Wordsworth gives voice to that very concern, that our human preoccupations, especially economic ones, keep us from...Show More

06:46 | May 20th, 2018

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience were my earliest introduction to Romantic poetry. They too are large, they contain multitudes. Few poets have given me such an all-inclusive perspe...Show More

01:58 | May 15th, 2018

What's worse than unrequited love? The loveless passing of your beloved. In this poem, A.E. Housman relives the agonies of the ignored and forgotten lovers of Narcissus.

01:25 | May 14th, 2018

A poem of the wanderlust one usually associates with the young and unattached, Vincent Millay reminds us that the voice beckoning us to adventure can be heard by anyone with ears to hear it.

00:54 | May 12th, 2018

By Emily Dickinson, a poem of love and weather—or weathering love? Either way I love this poem—always it makes me think of my wife (and fellow English major).

00:46 | May 11th, 2018

A short poem by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass, one of my favorites.