A Quick Sampler

Sample just a few. They just may entice you to come back for a longer visit. Most of these are also excellent selections for reading aloud.                 --Steve

1. Bread and Music , by Conrad Aiken - understanding what another's absence truly means

2. Before an Examination , by Stephen Vincent Benet

3. She Walks in Beauty , by Lord Byron - often quoted and often remembered

   

4. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth , by Arthur Hugh Clough - a strong dose of encouragement

5. In Just-Spring , by e.e. cummings

6. I love to see it lap the miles , by Emily Dickinson

7. Brahma , by Ralph Waldo Emerson - what is real and what is only perceived

8. The Roman Road , by Thomas Hardy

9. Invictus , by William Ernest Henley - 'unvanquished' - a poem on strength of will and resolution

10. October's Bright Blue Weather , by Helen Hunt Jackson

11. Piano , by D.H. Lawrence - the bittersweet nature of sound and memory

12. Snow-flakes , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - another, more subtle exercise of sound and rythm

13. The Listeners , by Walter de la Mare - a promise kept

14. Sea Fever , by John Masefield - a very frequently quoted poem

15. Tavern , by Edna St. Vincent Millay - future plans from past memories

16. The Garrett , by Ezra Pound

17. A Flower of Mullein , by Lizette Woodworth Reese

18. Clif Klingenhagen , by E.A. Robinson

19. Requiem , by Christina Rosetti - dealing with loss

20. Monotone , by Carl Sandburg - how the sound of words can sometimes echo their meaning

21. Requiem , by Robert Louis Stevenson - perhaps the most famous of all epitaphs

22. Crossing the Bar , by Alfred, Lord Tennyson - another frequently remembered poem, similar in sentiment though different in tone from Invictus

23. Solitude , by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

24. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by William Butler Yeats - a love poem, of sorts, for the rich of heart though poor of pocket