Leda and the Swan - by Yeats

The Summer Day - By Mary Oliver

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

The Raven - By Poe

“Quoth the raven ‘Nevermore”

Ozymandias - By Shelley

“Nothing beside remains.”

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer - By Walt Whitman

“Looked up in perfect silence at the stars”

Jabberwocky - By Lewis Carroll

“All mimsy were the borogroves”

Love Dogs - By Rumi - Translation by Colman Barks

“There are love dogs no one knows the names of. Give your life to be one of them.”

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven - By Yeats

“….the heavens’ embroidered cloths”

God’s Grandeur - By Gerard Manley Hopkins

“…Nor can foot feel, being shod.”

Untitled - by Rilke

“Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror”

Nothing Gold Can Stay - By Robert Frost

“Nature’s first green is gold….”

The Second Coming - By W.B. Yeats

“What rough beast, its hour come ‘round at last Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”

Love After Love - By Derek Walcott

“Sit. Feast on your life.”

The Revenant - By Billy Collins

“I never liked you. Not one bit.”

Wild Geese - By Mary Oliver

“…announcing your place in the family of things.”

Home Burial - By Robert Frost

“He saw her from the bottom of the stairs.”

Soul - By J. L. Warman

“Beyond the field of smoke…”

Kindness - By Naomi Shehab Nye

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things.”