In “On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age,” Wheatley seeks ... mournful remembrance poem about his dear sister ...

The poetry inspired by these motives was the adequate expression of the ideals of the age,—of its shifting creeds ... and as romantic as it ever was in old times. Yet he is not satisfied ...

And the love story is clearly not a main focus of “Iliad,” as Troilus is dead by the time the poem begins. “For me, though, it’s more about everybody’s individual struggle with the monster of war,” ...

But no matter your age or what life throws at you ... Love that’s old. What better way to end our curated list of poems about ...

Frost is more and more read, by old readers and by young ... good poets get better with age, as Thomas Hardy for another instance did. The Collected Poems of Hardy are a universe through which ...

Jenny Joseph, whose poem Warning was twice voted Britain's favourite poem, has died at the age of 85. It is perhaps best known for its opening lines: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ...

Some poems deliberately don’t follow specific rules. Free verse has no rhyme or particular rhythm. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day ...

“Old age should burn and rave at close of day,” wrote the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” If Donald Trump has ever read that poem — an unlikely ...

The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration ... they heard her recite it at the Capitol. At age 22, Gorman was the youngest poet ever to perform ...

Nicaragua is a land that lives and breathes its identity through the value of poetry. In this land where ... to leave when she was just nine years old. Despite the upheaval, one constant remained ...

Old school and new school? Hip-hop legend MC Lyte begs to differ. Lyte, who performs Saturday, Oct. 19 in the Dodge Poetry ... not just rapping at the tender age of whatever that age was (when ...