Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 2. Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds.” (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written.

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Oliver says she thinks they were missed by other researchers "because people are not necessarily looking in a folder of letters to her niece, all of which have been published — or the interesting ones ...

Please make our job easier next year, and send less interesting poems. There was a heartening variety in the work, too. We received poems from teenagers, and from readers in their 90s, There were ...