This site exists for one purpose only: to help dispel the ugly and absolutely untrue myth that poetry is boring. Granted, a lot of poetry is boring, but you won't find it here. At Your Daily Poem, you'll find poetry that is touching, funny, provocative, inspiring, uplifting, and surprising. It may punch you in the gut, it may bring tears to your eyes, it may make you laugh out loud, but it most assuredly will not bore you! Visit our home page every day to see a different poem.

Poetry on YDP—by poets living and long dead, famous to completely unknown--is specially selected for accessibility and appeal. Thanks so much for visiting—and remember: a poem a day keeps the doldrums away!

Robert Bridges (1844 –1930) was an English physician and writer. Illness forced him into retirement from the medical profession at the age of 38, leaving him free to write full-time. His primary interest was poetry, though he also wrote plays and some nonfiction. Many of his poems were set to music and, in addition, Robert wrote and translated a number of hymns. Although he served as England’s poet laureate from 1913 to 1930, Robert‘s work is not nearly as well known as that of other poets who served in that post.

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