01:28

Mary Oliver - THE SWAN - An allegory pits the mind of a poet man against his compelling swan image.

00:36

Gianni Rodari - HOPE - by a poet of 'cosmic optimism'; an aspirational guru; a promoter of promise.

01:25

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - IF I LEAVE ALL FOR THEE - Sonnet 35 - A poet exalts heartache potently.

00:36

Trilussa - translation by John Duval - HAPPINESS - is something to snatch for poets while they can.

00:43

W. S. Merwin - SEPARATION - A poet reflects on a deeply personal absence; his own as much as others.

01:13

Denise Levertov - TALKING TO GRIEF - A poet employs a wistful metaphor to simply help her to let go.

01:03

Emily Brontë - MILD THE MIST UPON THE HILL - A poet is enwrapped in a maiden's nostalgic childhood.

01:14

Anaïs Nin - THE RISK - Feeling transformative pain, a poet prays for its equally substantive growth.

01:21

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi - THE GUEST HOUSE - A poet ponders: 'Why do the wrong people travel?'

01:42

Thomas Carew -TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS - A poet addresses his hurt directly. Better luck next time.

01:44

Emily Dickinson - THE SOUL HAS BANDAGED MOMENTS - Verses I, II, III, V, VI - A poet's rest churns

01:31

Shel Silverstein - SKIN STEALER - A poet's out-of-body thrill, revelling in the miracle that is HIM.

00:43

Emily Brontë - THE NIGHT IS DARKENING ROUND ME - A poet quakes snarled in a winter Everest of snow.

01:29

Rainer Maria Rilke -Translation Mary Kinzie - DAY IN AUTUMN - A poet draws the Fall of a young life.

00:42

Emily Brontë - FALL, LEAVES, FALL - Joyously a poet's heart soars at the very prospect of Autumn.

01:25

Pablo Neruda - Love Sonnet XI - A poet coos on/of a fantastical 'Brief Encounter' for Modern Times.

00:58

Thom Gunn - IN TRUST - Last Verse - A poet proposes an ideal; the very idiom of holding in trust.

01:33

Roald Dahl - THE PIG - (excerpted) - A poet's pig wittily swills & drills in a ravaging bureaucracy.

00:33

Langston Hughes - ISLAND - A poet seeks to escape to a world he once knew and wants to capture again

01:50

John Keats - LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - A Ballad - Verses III thru VII - A poet's gain in dejection.

01:23

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - MY LETTERS! ALL DEAD PAPER - Sonnets from the Portuguese No. 28

01:26

Emily Dickinson - THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY - A poet discriminates; sheltering her inner self

01:34

Rainer Maria Rilke: I LOVE THE DARK HOURS OF MY BEING - A poet magics darkness to light; an oxymoron

01:15

William Shakespeare - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Slices of Beatrice & Benedick - Dame Maggie Smith RIP

01:17

Pablo Neruda - CLENCHED SOUL - A poet's ego swims in the perception of a wistful pool of bitter loss

01:14

Bertolt Brecht - IN THE DARK TIMES WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING? - A poet's plaintive!

01:16

Sara Teasdale - I AM NOT YOURS - A poet challenges identity whilst harbouring hope; a neat trick.

01:24

Anne Sexton - I REMEMBER - A poet's memories of her relationship boldly echo in the raw, arid air.

01:24

W. H. Auden - THE MORE LOVING ONE - A poet strives to beat the perpetually hearty beat of apathy.

00:49

Bertolt Brecht - THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS - A poet vows creative control even if it means burning.

01:43

e. e. cummings - IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE SO - a poem in which fears of love are poignantly laid bare.

01:51

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - IF THOU MUST LOVE ME - Sonnet 14 – A poet vows to be loved as herself,

01:56

Charles Bukowski - ROLL THE DICE or GO ALL THE WAY - A poem sizzles inside the wit of possibilities.

01:15

W. H. Auden - IF I COULD TELL YOU - A poet winces at love in 'perpetual anticipation' - A villanelle

01:58

William Blake - THE TYGER - A poem questions the very potential of creation - majestically.

01:42

Henry David Thoreau - THE MOON NOW RISES TO HER ABSOLUTE RULE - Here, a heroic metaphor commands.

01:23

Audre Lorde - POWER - This poem urges the use of rhetoric, as much as poetry, as a societal tool.

02:06

Walter D. Wintle -THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN - This poem relishes the power of positive thinking.

01:27

William Blake - THE HUMAN ABSTRACT - Songs of Experience No 18 - excerpted - Dichotomies rule!

01:53

John Keats - YOU SAY YOU LOVE - All but Verse 2 - A poem attempts to requite the unrequited wittily.

01:43

William Blake - A LITTLE BOY LOST - Verses I, III, V, VI - Songs of Innocence/No.8 - A poem's plea.

01:07

Lewis Carroll - Four Riddles - From Sections II & III - A poet seizes the eternal rapture of mirth.

00:38

Robert Frost - A Question - such as this poem encapsulates is historic; yet sadly breathes even now.

01:50

Raymond Carver - Fear - A poem culls the anxiety of humane vulnerability we all - all of us - share.

01:27

Rainer Maria Rilke - Duino Elegies - The First Elegy's Last Verse - A poem sadly relevant for us now

01:28

Emily Dickinson - The Loneliness One dare not sound - in this fine poem poignantly resonates; echoes

01:27

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life - Verses I, VI, VII, IX - Some things NEVER change!

01:34

Emily Dickinson - I should not dare to leave my friend - Smiling, a poem embodies friendship's soul.

02:02

Robert Louis Stevenson - Dedication - The Queen, a pinnacle of dedication, steps into immortality.

02:07

Edna St Vincent Millay - Renascence - Verses I, IV, VI, XIX - A poem's magnum toss and tribulation.

02:07

Henry David Thoreau - Friendship - Language' s own stealth-filled binds make this poem aptly potent.

01:53

Edith Wharton - Survival - A poem with a surfeit of affectionate determination plying confidence.

01:37

Henry David Thoreau - Indeed; Indeed I cannot tell - A 'memory' poem that never mentions the word.

00:53

Henry David Thoreau - Men Say They Know Many Things - A poem framed as a theatrical riposte; Touche!

00:48

Henry David Thoreau - I Was Made Erect and Lone - A poetic rebel aims to fervidly defy loneliness.

01:40

Henry David Thoreau - Nature - A poem sings with the full force of a cosmos' sharp embellishment.

01:18

Mary Nagy - Does Your Soul Need Cleansing? - A purgative poem cleans up via its wit's own heady grin

01:47

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 151 - WS favoured many monarchs: Here a Queen's uncle speaks his last.

01:12

Anne Brontë - Appeal - A wife poetically entreats a stony spouse's ear. Some Wests are STILL wild.

01:40

John Keats - To Solitude - How to poetically dwell in one's mind & body through time & silence.