Poem-a-Day

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^{as Emanuel Morgan}

How terrible to entertain a lunatic!
To keep his earnestness from coming close!

A Madagascar land-crab once
Lifted blue claws at me
And rattled long black eyes
That would have got me
Had I not been gay.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on November 15, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

Title	Author	Date
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	12/09/2011
In drear nighted December	John Keats	12/08/2011
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)	William Shakespeare	12/07/2011
There’s a certain Slant of light (258)	Emily Dickinson	12/06/2011
Approach of Winter	William Carlos Williams	12/05/2011
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	12/04/2011
Earth Took of Earth	Anonymous	12/03/2011
Enemies	Dante Micheaux	12/02/2011
The Gardenia	Cornelius Eady	11/30/2011
“An Insistent and Eager Harmoniousness to Things”	David Keplinger	11/29/2011