My 10 Favorite Poems

• Tommy – Rudyard Kipling
• The Last Leaf – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• So, We’ll Go No More a Roving – Lord Byron
• Pioneers! O Pioneers! – Walt Whitman
• Cows – Paul Muldoon
• The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen
• Upon learning that a town exists called Upperville –John Updike
• The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
• Let Evening Come –Jane Kenyon

The last one is quite a treasure and wonderfully soothing. See for yourself:

Let Evening Come – Jane Kenyon

Let the light of late afternoon

shine through chinks in the barn, moving

up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing

as a woman takes up her needles

and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned

in long grass. Let the stars appear

and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.

Let the wind die down. Let the shed

go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop

in the oats, to air in the lung

let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t

be afraid. God does not leave us

comfortless, so let evening come.