The April 2015 blog series Poetry Beyond All Praise featured some of my favorite poems and poets (one each day) during National Poetry Month.
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No. 01 – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
No. 02 – Indian Summer
by Dorothy Parker
No. 03 – Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
No. 04 – We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
No. 05 – The Names
by Billy Collins
No. 06 – Alone
by Maya Angelou
No. 07 – La Fuite De La Lune
by Oscar Wilde
No. 08 – Hope is the Thing with Feathers – XXXII
by Emily Dickinson
No. 09 – The Last Song
by Charles Bukowski
No. 10 – A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
No. 11 – The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
No. 12 – What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
No. 13 – Poem to Be Read at 3 A.M.
by Donald Justice
No. 14 – Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
by Mary Elizabeth Frye
No. 15 – Solitude
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No. 16 – Tulips
by Sylvia Plath
No. 17 – This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
No. 18 – Juke Box Love Song
by Langston Hughes
No. 19 – Bay Poem from Berkeley
by Sandra Cisneros
No. 20 – Reunion
by Charles Wright
No. 21 – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
No. 22 – Money
by Philip Larkin
No. 23 – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
by William Shakespeare
No. 24 – When I Am Asked
by Lisel Mueller
No. 25 – The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by William Butler Yeats
No. 26 – Letter to N.Y.
by Elizabeth Bishop
No. 27 – On Hearing of Robin Williams’ Diagnosis
by Lynne Knight
No. 28 – Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
by Walt Whitman
No. 29 – Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings
by Juan Felipe Herrera
No. 30 – Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
by John Keats
I love your blog, and this is a terrific list of poems! Great to see Larkin’s ‘Money’ on here 🙂
Thank you so much! I’m enjoying your blog as well 😊