William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

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The poem Landscape and I by Norman MacCaig explores MacCaig's love and respect for the sublime power of nature. He covers an number of ways that nature communicates. The poem reminds us to soak nature ...