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Today’s Poem: Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Revisiting Thomas Campion’s expansive season
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Ring Out, Wild Bells
Ring out the darkness of the land
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Today’s Poem: Recipe for a Salad Dressing
Revisiting Sydney Smith’s cookery
Dec 31, 2025
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Today’s Poem: My Ghostly Father
Revisiting Charles d’Orleans and his stolen kiss
Dec 30, 2025
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Today’s Poem: Frost at Midnight
Revisiting Samuel Tayor Coleridge’s hymn to fatherly love
Dec 29, 2025
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Today’s Poem: Snow-Bound
Revisiting Whittier’s universe of sky and snow
Dec 26, 2025
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Today’s Poem: In the Bleak Midwinter
Revisiting Christina Rossetti and divine self-giving
Dec 25, 2025
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Today’s Poem: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Revisiting “’Twas the night before . . . ”
Dec 24, 2025
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Today’s Poem: The Oxen
Revisiting Thomas Hardy’s Christmas Eve poem
Dec 23, 2025
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Today’s Poem: Mistletoe
Revisiting Walter de la Mare: not that kind of creep
Dec 22, 2025
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: The House of Christmas
Revisiting G.K. Chesterton on “The place where God was homeless / And all men are at home”
Dec 19, 2025
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Today’s Poem: The Burning Babe
Revisiting Robert Southwell and the martyr’s Christmas
Dec 18, 2025
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Frost
A whimsical winter Wednesday
Dec 17, 2025
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Sound & Sense: An Open Thread
Tricks of perception and things on our minds
Dec 16, 2025
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