Poetry

Original Poetry

Poems by myself (someday?), family, and friends, published here with permission.

• "Acceptance," by Megan Murdock (2002)
• "Going Home by Pacific Currents," by Hua-Tai Lin (2013)
• "Two Brothers Meet in the Pacific," by Hua-Tai Lin (2013)

My Favorite Poems

• "God's Grandeur," by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband," by Anne Bradstreet

My Favorite Poets

• Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-72)
• George Herbert (1593-1633). Also see here.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1833-1889)
• Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Collections

• The Classical Poetry Archives at eMule.com
• Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto)

• "A Better Resurrection," by Christina Rossetti
• "The Bright Field," by R. S. Thomas
• "Colossians 3:3," by George Herbert
• "Contemplations," (13-20, 33) by Anne Bradstreet
• "Dover Beach," by Matthew Arnold
• "Easter Wings," by George Herbert
• "End of the Road," by Paul Lake (2002)
• "Friend, in the Desolate Time," by Erik Johan Stagnelius
• "From the Kitchen Window," by D. Q. McInerny (2000)
• "The Hold-Fast," by George Herbert
• "Holy Sonnets: Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God," by John Donne
• "I Gave This Day to God," by Luci Shaw
• "Ledges," by Bernard Scott (2003)
• "Love (III)," by George Herbert
• "Marriage Anagram," by Eric Chevlen

• "A Marriage," by R. S. Thomas (not online; see my poetry collections file)
• "My Brother's Photos, Before Okinawa," by Walt McDonald
• "The Mystery of the Aleph," by Eric Chevlen
• "Omnipotence," by Luci Shaw (not online; see my poetry collections file)
• "Pied Beauty," by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• "Shipwreck," by Luis de Camoes
• "Sin," by Luis de Camoes
• "Sonnet 116," by William Shakespeare
• "To Christ on the Cross," by Miguel de Guevara
• "A True Hymn," by George Herbert
• "Up-Hill," by Christina Rossetti
• "We Play at Paste" by Emily Dickinson
• "What Your Given Name Signifies," by Craig Payne

• A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
• Robert W. Service (1874-1958)

• "Catalogue Choices," by Mary Margaret Milbrath (2001)
• "Choice Trees," by Ann Horn (1993)
• "Craft Warning," by Frank Wilson (2001)
• "De Profundis," by Christina Rossetti
• "Dead Lovers," by Luis de Camoes
• "Did I miss Anything?" by Tom Wayman
• "The Elixir," by George Herbert
• "The End and the Beginning," by Wislawa Szymborska
• "Exercise," by Sally Thomas (2001)
• "Giving Time to the Dirt in Rows," by Walt McDonald (2001)
• "I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose" by Emily Dickinson
• "Joseph of Arimathea," by Neil Azevedo (2000)
• "A Lesson in Hermeneutics," by Paul Lake (2002)
• "Love and Friendship," by Emily Jane Bronte
• "The Names of Things," by Frederick Zydek (2000)

• "Narrowboats," by Sally Thomas (2000)
• "No Worst, There Is None," by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• "Octaves," (I), by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• "On the Early Retirement of Dogs," by Joyce S. Brown
• "A Poem Ending in the Preposition 'with'," by Michael S. Glaser
• "The Postmodern," by D. A. Carson (1999)
• "Redemption," by Leslie Goerner (2002)
• "Request to Simon," by Robert Greer Cohn (2001)
• "The Men That Don't Fit In," by Robert W. Service
• "The Strength to Grasp," by Eugene Zemp DuBose (2000)
• "Thou Art Indeed Just," by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• "Without a Bell," by Ralph C. LaRosa (2004)