John Ciardi

Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature

Selected Poems

From " I stood tip toe upon a little Hill

Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, 

Staying their wavy bodies against the streams, 

Tempered with coolness. How they ever wrestle

With their own sweet delight, and ever nestle......

Of this fair world, and all its gentle Livers 

Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers,

Mingler with leaves, and dew and tumbling streams,