october by mary oliver
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Anne Sexton, from "Her Kind", The Complete Poems
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Morning, John Clare
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Untitled, Maria Petrovykh 1942
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Dirge Without Music, Edna St Vincent Millay
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Missed Time, Ha Jin
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Sun, Rayner Heppenstall 1940
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On Transience, Gavrila Derzhavin 1816
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For National Poetry Day 2023, I am picking Sylvia Plath's poem "Mushrooms" from her first volume The Colossus, published in 1960.
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The Line of the Horizon, Maria Petrovykh 1957
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February, Boris Pasternak 1913
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Farewell, Anne Bronte
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: “I’ll have a hot bath.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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Romanza, Rayner Heppenstall 1935
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An Old Woman of the Roads, Padraic Colum
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Warning, Jenny Joseph
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