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Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”
23/09/2026 | 4 mins.
In today’s poem, death is a country beyond the sea. Happy reading.

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George Herbert’s “The Pulley”
21/09/2026 | 4 mins.
Today’s poem gives us a poet making sense of his restlessness and finding in it the mechanism that draws him upward to God. Happy reading.

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Marsden Hartley’s “Salutations to a Mouse”
18/09/2026 | 3 mins.
In today’s poem, the poet discovers unexpected value in his writing. Happy reading.

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Annie Dillard’s “How we spend our days”
17/09/2026 | 2 mins.
Today we are remembering Annie Dillard. Her poem offers not only advice for living, but an approach to understanding a life in retrospect. Happy reading.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Sestina”
16/09/2026 | 3 mins.
Today’s poem heightened the form it’s named for by adding patterned rhyme. Even with the added complexity, this sometimes-rigid form strikes the ear as verse that is smooth and unassuming. Happy reading.

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The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits. The Daily Poem is presented by Goldberry Studios. dailypoempod.substack.com

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