Today’s poem is by Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017), an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program.[1][2] He wrote fourteen books of poetry.[3]
—Bio via Wikipedia
Robert Browning's "Development"
Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."
Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"
Dana Gioia's "Entrance"
Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"
John Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
Christina Rossetti's "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
Shakespeare's "Let's talk of graves" from Richard II
Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus
Shakespeare's "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers"
Shakespeare's "Be Absolute For Death"
Shakespeare's "Prologue" to Henry V
Carl Sandburg's "Little Word, Little White Bird"
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"
Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The world is a beautiful place"
William Carlos Williams' "January"
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