April poetry

During the month of April, which happens to be National Poetry Month, I post 30 poems (one for each day). I didn’t do the series in 2009 because I was in London and living life happened to be a little more important at that moment (besides which, I didn’t have any of my poetry books with me).

2007
Poem 1: “I never saw a moor” by Emily Dickinson
Poem 2: Remember by Christina Rossetti
Poem 3: Death be Not Proud by John Donne
Poem 4: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Poem 5: God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem 6: My True-love Hath my Heart by Sir Philip Sidney
Poem 7: The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats
Poem 8: Swan and Shadow by John Hollander
Poem 9: Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats
Poem 10: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem 11: The Sea of Life by Abbess Thaisia
Poem 12: “In Western Lands” by J.R.R. Tolkien
Poem 13: “Fear no More” by William Shakespeare
Poem 14: The Old Knight by George Peele
Poem 15: Elegy for Jane by Theodore Roethke
Poem 16: She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Poem 17: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
Poem 18: A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
Poem 19: The World by Henry Vaughan
Poem 20: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
Poem 21: IX [Funeral Blues] by W.H. Auden
Poem 22: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
Poem 23: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Poem 24: An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum
Poem 25: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Poem 26: Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree by Anna de Bary
Poem 27: The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth
Poem 28: The Poplar Field by William Cowper
Poem 29: Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
Poem 30: Excerpt from The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier

2008
Poem 1: The Poplar Field by William Cowper
Poem 2: Song by Christina Rossetti
Poem 3: All in green went my love riding by e.e. cummings
Poem 4: (We grow accustomed to the Dark) by Emily Dickinson
Poem 5: Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem 6: Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
Poem 7: La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
Poem 8: In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke
Poem 9: A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas
Poem 10: The Song of Wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats
Poem 11: Holy Sonnets 1 by John Donne
Poem 12: Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room by William Wordsworth
Poem 13: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poem 14: [Because I could not stop for Death] by Emily Dickinson
Poem 15: Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats
Poem 16: Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Poem 17: The Poems of our Climate by Wallace Stevens
Poem 18: Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
Poem 19: In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
Poem 20: The Day Lady Died by Frank O’Hara
Poem 21: Green Rain by Mary Webb
Poem 22: The Monk and his Pet Cat
Poem 23: A Sparrow-hawk
Poem 24: A Piper by Seumas O’Sullivan
Poem 25: Cities Drowned by Henry Newbolt
Poem 26: Velvet Shoes by Eleanor Wylie
Poem 27: Spring Quiet by Christina Rossetti
Poem 28: I Saw a Peacock
Poem 29: From “Regeneration” by Henry Vaughan
Poem 30: A Dream of Trees by Mary Oliver