A sonnet's worth of poems

Is it May 1st? Yes. Is this the final entry in my series for National Poetry Month, which was April? Also yes. In my defense, while I am aware (thanks to the poem, memorized as a child) that April hath thirty days, I also spent much of yesterday certain that it was the 29th.

Having confessed my error, I offer this post as a celebration of poetry. Fourteen poems that I love. A sonnet’s worth. No rules other than I need to be able to find the poem online so I can link it for you, and that I am only allowed one poem per poet. No theme, other than I love these poems, for a wide variety of reasons. Also, I am going to open the comments up for everyone so if you want to add links to a favorite of your own, you can.

“Little Gidding” - T.S. Eliot

“i thank You God for most this amazing” - E. E. Cummings (note: that’s an audio recording of Cummings reading)

“O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” - Anne Carson

“To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall” - Kim Addonizio

Sonnet 29 - William Shakespeare

“The Coming of Light” - Mark Strand

“Spring and Fall” - Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Good Bones” - Maggie Smith

“Oysters” - Seamus Heaney

“Instructions on Not Giving Up” - Ada Limón

“The Pomegranate” - Eavan Boland

“Mysticism for Beginners” - Adam Zagajewski (trans. Clare Cavanagh)

“All Hallows” - Louise Glück

“The Troubadours Etc.” - Mary Szybist