The paradox of elegiac poems is that they simultaneously mark a loss while, if they are skillful, transporting what is lost to poetry ... and to be those things no more. Poem Selected by Anne ...

A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ... it had bought the pamphlet Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. All copies of the pamphlet, which was first published in 1811, were ...

The 172 line poem by the romantic poet expresses his outrage at the government, the Napoleonic war and the state of poverty in Britain among other things. All copies were believed to have been ...

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about goodness. “Heav’n’s awful ...

But when the crew was lost before the event took place, the poignant words went into storage for over 70 years. Jean’s son Richard discovered the poem by ... after the things that you love ...

The willing reader is a participant, a co-creator. “ Everything human is recorded in the long history of poetry. Have you lost a parent? A sweetheart? Found yourself alone in a new city?

With Monday’s poem, Longid underscored the POSD’s creative approach to public service, transforming the mundane task of reuniting lost items with their owners into a narrative that both ...

One result of their friendship was Bryant’s translation of Coronado’s “El pájaro perdido,” appearing as today’s Poem of the Day under its English title, “The Lost Bird.” In English, as in the Spanish ...