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Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
Today’s poem is the best-remembered work of the beloved “nonsense poet” Edward Lear–a silly lyric about a serious love.
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Sean Johnson
3
6:40
Simon Armitage's "Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass"
In today’s poem, Simon Armitage tells a tale as old as time.
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Sean Johnson
6:35
Gary Soto's "Oranges"
Today’s poem will leave you “knowing very well what it was all about.” Happy reading.
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Sean Johnson
2
8:17
Dana Gioia's "Pity the Beautiful"
In today’s poem, the life you pity might be your own.
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Sean Johnson
7:41
Maurice Manning's "A Plank from the Platform"
Today’s poem is a meditation on speech in the voice of a president.
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Sean Johnson
6:45
Wendell Berry's "Loving You Has Taught Me..."
Today’s poem looks back on a lifetime of maturing love.
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Sean Johnson
2
9:05
Leigh Hunt's "Jenny kiss'd Me"
Today’s poem is the story of a kiss that lives on as something more (maybe).
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Sean Johnson
4:25
W. H. Auden's "Night Mail"
Today’s poem, reminiscent of yesterday’s “From a Railway Carriage,” was written by Auden for use in the 1936 documentary short film, Night Mail, and…
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Sean Johnson
1
6:13
Robert Louis Stevenson's "From a Railway Carriage"
Today’s poem brings home the rumble and rattle of a train journey, while subtly suggesting a deeper insight.
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Sean Johnson
1
8:47
Anne Brontë's "The North Wind"
Today’s poem grew out of an elaborate game of make-believe between the Brontë siblings, and gives some idea of the mature verse that might have been if…
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Sean Johnson
2
4:11
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 2
Today’s poem is the final stanza of Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” in which the hero of the Trojan war persuades his aging compatriots to wring out the last of…
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Sean Johnson
4
6:03
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 1
Today’s poem is Tennyson’s imaginative answer to the question that many lovers of Homer have when they read Dante for the first time–what could carry…
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Sean Johnson
2
9:28
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