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John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Today’s poem marks a very special day.
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Sean Johnson
2
3:14
William Blake’s “Earth’s Answer”
Today’s poem is the companion to yesterday’s, and in it Blake imagines the Earth’s jaded reply.
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Sean Johnson
4:09
William Blake’s Introduction to Songs of Experience
Today’s poem, introducing the counterpart to “Songs of Innocence,” is a dialogue that immediately deepens the mood of the more “mature” lyrics that will…
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Sean Johnson
3:23
John Keats’ “Happy is England”
Sweet is the home you leave.
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Sean Johnson
3:12
John Keats’ “To one who has been long in city pent”
“Who is more happy, when, with heart's content,/Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair/Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair/And gentle tale of love…
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Sean Johnson
1
1:41
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
Today’s poem is a somber, paternal retrospective from the Ancient Mariner poet.
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Sean Johnson
2
5:29
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Today’s poem is Shelley’s own lasting monument amidst a body of great work that is rarely read today.
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Sean Johnson
1
5:17
Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"
Today’s poem kicks off a short trek through English poetry.
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Sean Johnson
4
7:01
Simon Curtis's "Satie, at the End of Term"
My friend Simon Curtis, who has died aged 70, was one of the small band of people who work tirelessly, for no pay and few thanks, to promote poetry.
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Sean Johnson
2:36
William Cullen Bryant's “I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long”
William Cullen Bryant was born near Cummington, Massachusetts, on November 3, 1794.
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Sean Johnson
2:28
Theodore Roethke's "Cuttings"
Today’s poem grows on you.
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Sean Johnson
4:44
Theodore Roethke's "Open House"
Theodore Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, in Saginaw, Michigan.
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Sean Johnson
5:09
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