My Guardian Angel

Robert William Service


Halfway Down

A.A. Milne


The Voice

Thomas Hardy


Winter Seascape

John Betjeman


To Daffodils

Robert Herrick
(1591 – 1674)


Venus Transiens

Amy Lowell


Ja visst gör det ont / Yes, of course it hurts

Karin Boye


After the Winter

Claude McKay


Sudden Light

Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Pingüino / Magellanic Penguin


the message of crazy horse

Lucille Clifton


My Greatest Need is You

Rabia al Basri
(717–801 C.E.)


On the Beach at Night Alone


Mark Twain and Joan of Arc

Vachel Lindsay


I Will Not Let Thee Go

Robert Seymour Bridges


March Elegy

Anna Akhmatova



Campo dei Fiori

Czesław Miłosz / Czeslaw Milosz
Translated by Louis Iribarne and David Brooks


Lead A Normal Life

Peter Gabriel


Et blik stort og barmhjertigt


Kornåkeren / Barley Field

Olav H. Hauge


The Play Way

Seamus Heany


High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending

Emily Jane Brontë


Vorfrühling / Early Spring


The Ecstatic

Cecil Day-Lewis


Living at the End of Time


Remember me when I am gone away


Absolutely Clear

Shams al-Din Hafiz
(1315 - 1390)


What I Know (Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk)

Phyllis Gotlieb