Today’s poem is a more complicated take on spring. Happy reading.  

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Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"

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Today’s poem isn’t what you think, until you do some thinking–then its exactly what you thought. R. S. Gwynn (born 1948) is the author of six collections of poetry, including Dogwatch (2014) and the University of Missouri Breakthrough Award winner The Drive-In (1986). -bio via Library of Congress 

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R. S. Gwynn's "Shakespearean Sonnet"

Today’s poem, a lover’s plea disguised as a meditation on virtuous restraint, marks the end of our week of sonnets. Happy reading. 

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William Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 ("They that have power")

Today, the Bard gets bitter. 

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William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 ("My love is as a fever...")

Today’s sonnet details a painful reality: even great poets lose their hair sometimes. 

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William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 ("That time of year...")

Today, a (biased) case for poems as the monuments that can outlast monuments. 

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Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"

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