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.”

The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry

Song of Myself By Walt Whitman

“I am large. I contain multitudes.”

For Whom the Bell Tolls By John Donne

“Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls….”

Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold

“Ah, love, let us be true to one another…”

Let It Be By The Beatles

“There will be an answer”

“The Lanyard” By Billy Collins

“and I gave her a lanyard”

The Red Wheel Barrow By William Carlos Williams

“So much depends on a red wheel barrow….”

The Two -Headed Calf By L. Gilpin

“…but tonight he is alive…”

She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron