Ten poems to last a lifetime

My life / Billy Collins --

Ecstasy / Hayden Carruth --

Weathering / Fleur Adcock --

Sunset / Rainer Maria Rilke --

For the sake of strangers / Dorianne Laux --

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

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

To autumn / John Keats --

Art of disappearing / Naomi Shihab Nye --

Mind of absolute trust (excerpt) / Seng-Ts'an --

When death comes / Mary Oliver.