The Gladdest Thing is a site created and maintained by Michelle McGinnis. If you'd like to sign up to receive poems via email when they're posted here, simply subscribe. You can unsubscribe at any time.
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“The Gladdest Thing” is a phrase from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Afternoon on a Hill“.
A. E. Housman Alfred Lord Tennyson Andrew Marvell Anna Swir Anna Wickham Anne Sexton Anonymous Arthur O’Shaughnessy Ben Johnson Bill Holm Carol Ann Duffy Christina Rossetti David Budbill David Wagoner Denise Levertov Dorothy Parker E.B. White e.e. cummings Edna St. Vincent Millay Edward Field Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Muir Fleur Adcock Frank O'Hara Galway Kinnell Gensei Grace Paley Gregory Corso Gwendolyn Brooks Hafiz Hayden Carruth Herman Melville Howard Nemerov Hugo Williams Issa James Fenton James Wright John Crowe Ransom John Keats Josephine Jacobsen Kate Light Kenneth Rexroth Langston Hughes Lee Robinson Leigh Hunt Leonard Nathan Li-Young Lee Linda Gregg Linda Hogan Lisel Mueller Louise Bogan Louis Simpson Louis Zukofsky Marilyn Chin Martha Baird Mary Oliver Matthew Arnold Maturai Eruttalan Centamputan Maurya Simon May Thielgaard Watts Michael Drayton Paul Verlaine Petronius Philip Appleman Philip Larkin R.S. Gwynn Rainer Maria Rilke Raymond Carver Richard Lovelace Robert Frost Robert Graves Robert Hayden Robert Herrick Robinson Jeffers Roger McGough Ryokan Sara Teasdale Sharon Olds Sheenagh Pugh Stanley Kunitz Stephen Dunn Steve Kowit T.S. Eliot T.S. Kerrigan Theodore Roethke Tom Clark Tu Fu W.H. Auden W.S. Merwin Walt Whitman Wendell Berry Wendy Cope William Baer William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams William Henley William Henry Davies William Shakespeare William Wordsworth X.J. Kennedy
The Gladdest Thing is a charming site, and I look forward to rcving poems that have caught your fancy.
Best wishes,
Steve
Thanks Steve! I’m trying to get better about sending poems more regularly… we’ll see.
Have very much enjoyed the last few. Thanks for your thought and care per this site.
You’ve created a great resource. Thank you for making finding good poetry easier.
This is a great site. It is much easier for me to look into many great poems. I’m expecting more from here.
I really like this! I was searching for poems by a poet I care for–Martha Baird–and came upon your site, which has one of my favorite poems by her: “Do Not Make Things Too Easy.” I’d like you to know of another of my favorites, and I’m including it here.
To the Gentlemen, by Martha Baird (from Nice Deity, 1955)
Someone should explain to the gentlemen
That a lady need not look like a frump
To have a mind.
A lady is born with a certain bone structure,
Which, if it is rather good or not,
Is neither credit nor blame to her.
She is likewise born with possibilities of mind,
Which, if she develops, are lovelier to her
And more cherished than her bones.
Ladies can have a lot of fun
Making fools of gentlemen who do not understand
this.
Someone really should explain it
To the gentlemen.
Dear Michelle McGinnis,
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Sincerely, David Budbill