Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

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With a hoe, you waste a lot of time just pushing powder around the tub. Shop Now I rake leaves like I’m sweeping the floor ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

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He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The three daughters also got sentimental before concluding the long message with the poem On The Death Of The Beloved by John O'Donohue. They wrote: 'She burned bright, our mother. She lived and ...