Ten poems to last a lifetime

My life / by Billy Collins

Ecstasy / by Hayden Carruth

Weathering / by Fleur Adcock

Sunset / by Rainer Maria Rilke

For the sake of strangers / by Dorianne Laux

Song of a man who has come through / by D.H. Lawrence

Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / by James Wright

To autumn / by John Keats

The art of disappearing / by Naomi Shihab Nye

The mind of absolute trust (excerpt) / by Seng-Ts'an

When death comes / by Mary Oliver.