A poem a day

One public-domain poem each day, chosen for the season.

Today's poem

How the poems are chosen

Each day shows one poem, picked for the season: winter from December through March, spring and early summer from April through July, late summer and fall from August through November. On the first of each month, the poem is that month's poem from our 2027 calendar.

Every poem here was first published in the United States in 1930 or earlier, so it is in the public domain in the US. Each text follows an early printing, and each poem links to the scan or transcription we used. 122 poems are in the rotation.

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From the 2027 calendar

The Snow Man, Wallace Stevens (1921) text source
Winter Moon, Langston Hughes (1923) text source
A Patch of Old Snow, Robert Frost (1916) text source
Spring, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921) text source
The Widow's Lament in Springtime, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Miracles, Walt Whitman (1856) text source
Adlestrop, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
Fog, Carl Sandburg (1916) text source
As imperceptibly as Grief, Emily Dickinson (1891) text source
Leaves, Sara Teasdale (1915) text source
November Night, Adelaide Crapsey (1915) text source
Stars, Sara Teasdale (1920) text source
Dust of Snow, Robert Frost (1923) text source

Winter poems

Good Hours, Robert Frost (1915) text source
The Onset, Robert Frost (1923) text source
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter, Robert Frost (1923) text source
Evening in a Sugar Orchard, Robert Frost (1923) text source
Beclouded, Emily Dickinson (1890) text source
The Snow, Emily Dickinson (1891) text source
To March, Emily Dickinson (1896) text source
February Twilight, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
A December Day, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
February, Sara Teasdale (1915) text source
Thaw, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
The Manor Farm, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
Winter Trees, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Blizzard, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Spring Storm, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
To Waken an Old Lady, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Velvet Shoes, Elinor Wylie (1921) text source
Winter Sleep, Elinor Wylie (1921) text source
Winter in the Country, Claude McKay (1922) text source
After the Winter, Claude McKay (1922) text source
March Moon, Langston Hughes (1926) text source
Snow, Adelaide Crapsey (1915) text source
Falling Snow, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
Trees in Winter, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
Alms, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921) text source
Winter Milk, Carl Sandburg (1920) text source
Just Before April Came, Carl Sandburg (1920) text source
Horses and Men in Rain, Carl Sandburg (1918) text source
Bread and milk for breakfast, Christina Rossetti (1893) text source
There's snow on the fields, Christina Rossetti (1893) text source
Piano, D. H. Lawrence (1920) text source
Tea, Wallace Stevens (1923) text source
Winter, Walter de la Mare (1916) text source

Spring and summer poems

Spring Pools, Robert Frost (1928) text source
Blue-Butterfly Day, Robert Frost (1923) text source
Fireflies in the Garden, Robert Frost (1928) text source
Hyla Brook, Robert Frost (1916) text source
A Day (“I’ll tell you how the sun rose”), Emily Dickinson (1890) text source
Summer Shower (“A drop fell on the apple tree”), Emily Dickinson (1890) text source
In the Garden (“A bird came down the walk”), Emily Dickinson (1891) text source
“A light exists in spring”, Emily Dickinson (1896) text source
April, Sara Teasdale (1915) text source
Dusk in June, Sara Teasdale (1915) text source
May Day, Sara Teasdale (1920) text source
June Night, Sara Teasdale (1920) text source
Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917) text source
City Trees, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921) text source
Eel-Grass, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921) text source
Happiness, Carl Sandburg (1916) text source
Back Yard, Carl Sandburg (1916) text source
Summer Night, Langston Hughes (1926) text source
Sea Calm, Langston Hughes (1926) text source
Dream Variations, Langston Hughes (1926) text source
Summer Rain, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
A Shower, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
July Midnight, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
The Garden, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1915) text source
Metric Figure, William Carlos Williams (1917) text source
Summer Song, William Carlos Williams (1917) text source
The Lonely Street, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
The Birds, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Ploughing on Sunday, Wallace Stevens (1923) text source
Gubbinal, Wallace Stevens (1923) text source
Spring in New Hampshire, Claude McKay (1922) text source
Home Thoughts, Claude McKay (1922) text source
Reapers, Jean Toomer (1923) text source
Beehive, Jean Toomer (1923) text source
Storm Ending, Jean Toomer (1923) text source
Tall Nettles, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
Sowing, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
It Rains, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
The First Dandelion, Walt Whitman (1888) text source
The Dalliance of the Eagles, Walt Whitman (1881) text source
The Gardener, 85 (“Who are you, reader”), Rabindranath Tagore (1913) text source

Late summer and fall poems

Gathering Leaves, Robert Frost (1923) text source
In Hardwood Groves, Robert Frost (1930) text source
My November Guest, Robert Frost (1915) text source
Reluctance, Robert Frost (1915) text source
Autumn (“The morns are meeker than they were”), Emily Dickinson (1890) text source
“’T was later when the summer went”, Emily Dickinson (1890) text source
September Day, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
Late October, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
Arcturus in Autumn, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
Autumn Dusk, Sara Teasdale (1926) text source
Autumn Chant, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923) text source
The Spring and the Fall, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923) text source
Never May the Fruit Be Plucked, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923) text source
Laughing Corn, Carl Sandburg (1918) text source
Falltime, Carl Sandburg (1918) text source
Under the Harvest Moon, Carl Sandburg (1916) text source
Autumn, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
November, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
Hoar-Frost, Amy Lowell (1919) text source
Willow Poem, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Approach of Winter, William Carlos Williams (1921) text source
Flame-Heart, Claude McKay (1922) text source
The Tropics in New York, Claude McKay (1922) text source
Poème d’Automne, Langston Hughes (1926) text source
The Warning, Adelaide Crapsey (1915) text source
Night Winds, Adelaide Crapsey (1915) text source
Birds’ Nests, Edward Thomas (1917) text source
Halcyon Days, Walt Whitman (1888) text source
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, Walt Whitman (1888) text source
The Gardener, 84 (“Over the green and yellow rice-fields”), Rabindranath Tagore (1913) text source
For My Grandmother, Countee Cullen (1925) text source
If You Should Go, Countee Cullen (1925) text source
Dusk, Angelina Weld Grimké (1927) text source
Snow in October, Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1927) text source
The Wild Swans at Coole, W. B. Yeats (1917) text source