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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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POEM OF THE DAY
On His Blindness
John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: “God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
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88 FAMOUS POEMS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
POEMS IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
- William Shakespeare: Sonnets and plays like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.
- Walt Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"
- Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- Emily Dickinson: Many of her poems, including "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "The Sleeper"
- William Blake: "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"
- John Donne: "Death, be not proud"
- T.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land"
- "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Eugene Field
- "Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "Songs for the People" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- "If..." by Rudyard Kipling
- "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll
- "The Fish and the Shadow" by Ezra Pound
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Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 30, 2015, by the Academy of American Poets.
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