Poems by Billy Collins

I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or on any river for that matter
to be perfectly hone...

Some days I put the people in their places at the table,
bend their legs at the knees,
if they co...

I might as well begin by saying how much I like the title.
It gets me right away because I’m in ...

All I do these drawn-out days
is sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge
where there are no pheasan...

The worst thing about death must be the first night. —Juan ...

The name of the author is the first to gofollowed obediently by the title, the plot,the heartbrea...