Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color [...]

The Hollow Men

By T. S. Eliot  We are the hollow men  We are the stuffed men  Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. [...]

A Litany for Survival

By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial [...]

A Light exists in Spring

By Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period – When March [...]

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age [...]

The Summer Day

By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This [...]

EQUALITY

By Maya Angelou You declare you see me dimly Through a glass which will not shine, though I stand before [...]

In Time’s Swing

by Lucy Larcom Father Time, your footsteps go Lightly as the falling snow. In your swing I’m sitting, see! Push [...]