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Today’s Poem: The Gates of Damascus
Ye beat the bell that beats to hell, and who shall thrust you back? Not I.
19 hrs ago
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: Immortality
The sadness of the era, which no other time in English poetry has ever quite matched
Sep 25
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Joseph Bottum
28
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Today’s Poem: Atalanta in Camden-Town
Lewis Carroll remixes some tolerably danceable Swinburne
Sep 24
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Sally Thomas
27
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Today’s Poem: To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet’s theology of marriage
Sep 23
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Sally Thomas
48
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Today’s Poem: The Village Blacksmith
A poet moral exemplar
Sep 22
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Joseph Bottum
35
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Today’s Poem: Elegy
The new wheat springing in their stead
Sep 19
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Sally Thomas
41
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Today’s Poem: Ring Out Your Bells
Good Lord, deliver us!
Sep 18
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Sally Thomas
38
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Today’s Poem: Dirge
Fare thee ill, insensate B! / Which stung, nor yet knew Y
Sep 17
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Joseph Bottum
21
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Sound & Sense: An Open Thread
Simple is hard, hindsight is exile, five-finger exercises are fun — and what are you thinking about?
Sep 16
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Leda and the Swan
History flows from the sudden blow, the violent annunciation
Sep 15
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Joseph Bottum
41
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Today’s Poem: On Shakespeare. 1630
The First Folio, the Second Folio, and how John Milton lays Shakespeare to rest
Sep 12
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Sally Thomas
45
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Today’s Poem: The Enkindled Spring
D.H. Lawrence's shadow that’s gone astray, and is lost
Sep 11
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Joseph Bottum
30
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