I am literally never not pleasantly surprised by joy when I pick up Richard Wilbur. Here’s his “Digging for China,” posted on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. You can also hear Wilbur recite it here. (I love the chuckle at the end. “And it seemed to me I was acquitted.”)

And here is Wilbur’s translation of Francis Jammes, A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys, which you can happily also hear him recite. 😀