Today’s poem is inspired by one of our favorites here at the Daily Poem. Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of ten poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014. His most recent book of poems, Lacunae, is available wherever books are sold. -bio via Paraclete Press  

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Scott Cairns' "Musée"

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Today’s poem is another from Belloc–one of his Cautionary Tales for Children just in time for the beginning of a quiet summer (maybe?). 

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Hilaire Belloc's "Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably"

Today’s poem is a series of increasingly vital pleas. Happy reading. For more of Belloc’s advice to the young, find yourself a copy of Cautionary Tales for Children!  

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Hilaire Belloc's "On the Gift of a Book to a Child"

Today we’re feeling out a Saturday bonus episode featuring a reading of “Morituri Salutamus” in its entirety. Happy reading! 

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Bonus: "Morituri Salutamus" in full

Today’s episode features selections from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fifty-year retrospective on his own graduation, the lengthy speech-in-verse, “Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College.” Come back tomorrow to hear the poem in full. Happy reading! 

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Selections From Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus"

Today’s poem from Christina Rossetti is not about high school or college, but it might still be about graduation. Happy reading! 

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Scott Cairns' "Musée"

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