Good poems for hard times

Break of day / Galway Kinnell - Happiness / Raymond Carver - This morning / Jane Kenyon - The monks of St. John's file in for prayer / Kilian McDonnell - Job / William Baer - Or death and December / George Garrett - Sonnet: "Rarely, rarely comest thou, spirit of delight" / Gavin Ewart - The little horse is newlY / E.E. Cummings - A poem for Emily / Miller Williams - For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock - For my daughter in reply to a question / David Ignatow - The goose / Muriel Spark - Starting the Subaru at five below / Stuart Kestenbaum - Day bath / Debra Spencer - A dialogue of watching / Kenneth Rexroth - A birthday / W. S. Merwin - Thoughts in a garden / Andrew Marvell - Spring / Mary Oliver - Unharvested / Robert Frost - The state of the economy / Louis Jenkins - At the arraignment / Debra Spencer - From "Song of myself" / Walt Whitman - Ice storm / Jane Kenyon - Passengers / Billy Collins - The summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb / Sharon Olds - You can take it with you / Josephine Jacobsen - To David, about his education / Howard Nemerov - Invitation / Carl Dennis - Calling him back from layoff / Bob Hicok - Working in the rain / Robert Morgan - My father's lunch / Erica Funkhouser - The happiest day / Linda Pastan - 'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' / John Keats - Children's hospital, emergency room / Gregory Djanikian - The longly-weds know / Leah Furnas - In answer to your query / Naomi Lazard - Toast / Leonard Nathan - Detail waiting for a train / Stanley Plumly - September twelfth, 2001 / X. J. Kennedy - The altar / Charles Simic - Sonnet No. 6: Dearest, I never knew such loving / Hayden Carruth - There comes the strangest moment / Kate Light - Snowflake / William Baer - Somewhere I'll find you / Phebe Hanson - Festing / Elizabeth W. Garber - Song / W. H. Auden - Yes / Catherine Doty - The dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman - After love / Maxine Kumin - Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time / William Shakespeare - A spiral notebook / Ted Kooser - What's in my journal / William Stafford - Why I take good care of my Macintosh / Gary Snyder - Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby - Internal exile / Richard Cecil - Burma-shave / Traditional - Carnation milk / Anonymous - A brief lecture on door closers / Clemens Starck - Sonnet XII: Why are we by all creatures waited on? / John Donne - Angels / Maurya Simon - Passing through a small town / David Shumate - In Paris with you / James Fenton - Wedding poem for Schele and Phil / Bill Holm - Seven deadly sins / Virginia Hamilton Adair - Teaching a child the art of confession / David Shumate - A physics / Heather McHugh - Things / Lisel Mueller - Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri - The courage that my mother had / Edna St. Vincent Millay - Please Mrs. Butler / Allan Ahlberg - To a frustrated poet / R. J. Ellmann - The lesson of the moth / Don Marquis - Disappointment / Tony Hoagland - The cure / Ginger Andrews - Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends / Jo McDougall - The con job / Charles Bukowski - Fareweel to A' our Scottish fame / Robert Burns - Easter morning / Jim Harrison - A million young workmen, 1915 / Carl Sandburg - The college colonel / Herman Melville - Ordinary life / Barbara Crooker - To fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson - Analysis of baseball / May Swenson - Ode to American English / Barbara Hamby - High water mark / David Shumate - After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan - Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy - Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion - Happiness / Michael Van Walleghen - From Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein - Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic - Theater / William Greenway - Ode on the whole duty of parents / Frances Cornford - The benefits of ignorance / Hal Sirowitz - Bunthorne's song / W. S. Gilbert - The rules of evidence / Lee Robinson - Courtesy / Hilaire Belloc - What the uneducated old woman told me / Christopher Reid - Proverbs of hell / Willia