How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

By – Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the [...]

Lodged

By Robert Frost  “The rain to the wind said, ‘You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed [...]

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 [...]