Poem of the Month

Poem of the Month is part of Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Reconnect with Reading initiative. Each month, we’ll reveal a new personality reading his/her favorite poem, new poetry suggestions and upcoming poetry events.

Poet: William Butler Yeats
Poem: Down by the Salley Gardens & The Song of the Wandering Aengus
from The Secret Rose: love poems of W.B. Yeats
Sung by: Matt O'Dwyer

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William Bulter Yeats:

Works by Yeats 
Online Exhibition, National Library of Ireland
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923 
Lecture on Yeats, including discussion of "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" at Yale

Favorite Poem Readings

Listen to one of our Community Readings where we captured people reading their favorite poems.  Have a poem that speaks to you?  Share your favorite poem with us at our next Community Reading, coming soon.  
 

Poem of the Month Archive

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