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A. A. Milne's "The Charcoal-Burner"
Today’s poem uses both form and content to show us a child’s perspective on the familiar mystery of a cultural oddity.
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Sean Johnson
1
9:57
A. E. Stallings' "Scissors"
Today’s poem offers an incisive analogy for analogies.
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Sean Johnson
2
6:28
William Shakespeare's "All the World's a Stage"
Today’s poem, from As You Like It, is a provocative take on human nature that is definitely not meant to be read as Shakespeare’s final opinion on the…
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Sean Johnson
2
8:09
Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"
Today’s poem draws together marriage and the blessing of water.
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Sean Johnson
2
7:58
Changes to The Daily Poem in 2025
“Sonnet: I Thank Thee”
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Sean Johnson
2
Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"
If you can see “a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,” what can you see in the trashcan at the curb?
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Sean Johnson
1
11:33
Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"
Does today’s poem contain the secret to minimizing regret in 2025?
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Sean Johnson
5:55
Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"
Happy New Year (and Happy Reading) from The Daily Poem!
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Sean Johnson
1
8:16

December 2024

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"
…I had seen birth and death,
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Sean Johnson
1
9:18
William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"
The repetition of the word “unsatisfied” forms a set of bookends in today’s poem.
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Sean Johnson
8:50
Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"
“the Christmas Tree is a tree of fable,/A phoenix in evergreen”
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Sean Johnson
1
9:52
W. H. Auden's Conclusion to For the Time Being
“To those who have seen/The Child, however dimly, however incredulously,/The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all.”
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Sean Johnson
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5:39
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