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
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 ("Not marble...")
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee...")
Oliver Herford's "The Early Owl"
A. A. Milne's "Bad Sir Brian Botany"
Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Bed is a Boat"
Hilaire Belloc's "Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably"
Hilaire Belloc's "On the Gift of a Book to a Child"
Bonus: "Morituri Salutamus" in full
Selections From Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus"
Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill"
C. P. Cavafy's "Che Fece...Il Gran Rifiuto"
Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"
John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"
Matsuo Bashō's Spring Haiku
Thomas Nashe's "Spring, the sweet spring"
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"
E. E. Cummings' "[O sweet spontaneous]"
Phillis Levin's "End of April
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
Robert Southey's "His Books"
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