Today’s poem

Poem 1 “Those Winter Sundays” In this famous poem, the poet chronicles the ordinary, unacknowledged acts of a father. Speaking indifferently to his own father, fearing the chronic angers of that house, the poet also recalls his father warmed the winter rooms, and polished the poet’s good shoes as well. About fatherhood and its complicated feelings, the poet laments: “What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices?” click here to download