Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide [...]
The Trees are Down
Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928) It is not for a moment the Spring is unmade to-day; These were great trees, [...]
Nothing but death
by Pablo Neruda There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the [...]
The Bee
By Emily Dickinson Like trains of cars on tracks of plush I hear the level bee: A jar across the [...]
‘No Man is an Island’
John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part [...]
Ode to the West Wind
– Percy Bysshe Shelley I. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the [...]
When Someone Deeply Listens to You
by John Fox When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since [...]
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I [...]