The Lifeguard

SpillwordsJanuary 26, 2020

The Lifeguard a poem by: James Dickey   In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its shadow Mak...

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Life

SpillwordsJanuary 19, 2020

Life a poem by: George Herbert   I made a posie, while the day ran by: Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time...

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An Old Life

SpillwordsJanuary 12, 2020

An Old Life a poem by: Donald Hall   Snow fell in the night. At five-fifteen I woke to a bluish mounded softness where the Honda was. Cat fed and c...

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Those Winter Sundays

SpillwordsJanuary 5, 2020

Those Winter Sundays a poem by Robert Hayden   Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands...

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The Year

SpillwordsDecember 29, 2019

The Year a poem by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox   What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old ...

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Ring Out, Wild Bells

SpillwordsDecember 22, 2019

Ring Out, Wild Bells a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson   Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying i...

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The Darkling Thrush

SpillwordsDecember 15, 2019

The Darkling Thrush a poem by: Thomas Hardy   I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening...

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Sailing to Byzantium

SpillwordsDecember 8, 2019

Sailing to Byzantium a poem by William Butler Yeats   I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Tho...

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Innocence

SpillwordsDecember 1, 2019

Innocence a poem by Patrick Kavanagh   They laughed at one I loved - The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That I was bounde...

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The Harvest Moon

SpillwordsNovember 24, 2019

The Harvest Moon a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes And roofs of villages, on woodland crests And their ae...

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Frost At Midnight

SpillwordsNovember 17, 2019

Frost At Midnight a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge   The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud—and ha...

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The Man He Killed

SpillwordsNovember 10, 2019

The Man He Killed a poem by: Thomas Hardy   "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! ...

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Fast Rode The Knight

SpillwordsNovember 3, 2019

Fast Rode The Knight a poem by Stephen Crane   Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, "To save my lady!" Fast...

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The Hollow Men

SpillwordsOctober 27, 2019

The Hollow Men a poem by T.S. Eliot   Mistah Kurtz-he dead A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning tog...

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