Maiden Away! Away from me fiend! Off you bare-skulled savage! I’m still young, with long to live! Away! And leave me be. Death Lend me...

We are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...

Discover the true magic of these poems: read along as you listen to the settings of Robert Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder cycle found...

Here the hills are old and rolling carefully in their old age; on the horizon youthful mountains bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

Edgar Allan Poe laid down the principles of poetic composition in several of his essays, notably “The Poetic Principle.” However, he did...

Ethereal, distant voices, Heavenly greetings of larks, How sweetly you move men's hearts With your enchanting voices. As my eyes begin...

Come you lovely fisher girl, Come and bring your boat to land; Join me on the golden shore, We'll cuddle hand in hand. Lay your head on...

My spirit is lost in the late afternoon, As it drifts with the shadows that float in the air; It lives in the moment that dies all too...

Thou sacred art, in how many trying hours When I had been thrown through life’s winding ways Did you come and lift my sad heart into...