Poets convey deep thoughts with few words. How do poets approach their subjects? Why is the rhythm of words important to them? Poets want their words to be heard. Here's a collection to read "out loud."
Taps is a 24-note bugle call which marks one of two events: It signals that all unauthorized lights must be extinguished. This is the l...
Alfred Noyes, a British poet born in 1880, wasextremely popularduring his lifetime. He wrote a lyrical story about a doomed highwayman and Bess (the l...
In his autobiography, Yeats tells us how he came to pen this still-loved poem about Innisfree, an uninhabited island in Lough Gill (located in County ...
Bookcover image of The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C.
Shakespeare wrote immortal lines for his play, "The Tragedy of King Richard II," including the now-famous phrase: "This royal throne of kings, this sc...
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
Poem on time by Carole Bos
Love poem, by Jeannine Proulx.
Around 1200 AD, in todays Trondheim (Norway), trolls, or gnomes were thought to be mischievous.
Emotionally upset, and in the throes of depression, Verdi makes a decision. It is 1840, and he's had it with composing music. Then ... an unexpected e...
On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf, the famous British author, drowned in a river near her home. A single recording of her voice survives. The BBC has r...
A view of Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin between 1845-1847.
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