Poem-a-Day

The only daily poetry series publishing new work by today’s poets.

Poem-a-day

The Adoration

Now, like withdrawing music
Where pillared aisles implore,
You are a vanished choir,
A soft-closed door.

Victorious voices blended
Fade, and I kneel still-hearted.
Sudden my life is ended.
We have parted.

Lost in the vault’s vast splendor
My ghost goes rising, thinning.
Can heartbreak be an end, or
Some strange beginning?

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 24, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

William Rose Benét

William Rose Bénet

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
October Sonnet	Adrian Matejka	02/24/2023
Neoteric Kama No Sutra	Frank X Walker	02/23/2023
Boihood	Jari Bradley	02/22/2023
Self-Care	Faylita Hicks	02/21/2023
her aint even at de funeral	avery r. young	02/20/2023
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother	Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés	02/19/2023
The Eyes of My Regret	Angelina Weld Grimké	02/18/2023
The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. “across the surface of my studied speech”	Remica Bingham-Risher	02/17/2023
St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said	Lynne Thompson	02/16/2023
An Act of Love	Tommye Blount	02/15/2023