Favorite Poems and Poets Around the World

Favorite Poems and Poets Around the World Blog

audio / Scottish

February 4, 2016

John Anderson, My Jo

When we were first acquent…

English

February 3, 2016

Godolphin Horne

Alas! That such affected tricks should flourish in a child of six!

Reely's Blog

February 3, 2016

Miniver Cheevy, Child of Scorn

What did Edwin Arlington Robinson mean by calling Miniver Cheevy a child of scorn?

Australian

February 2, 2016

When The Children Come Home

On a lonely selection far out in the West…

Reely's Blog

January 30, 2016

Edgar Allan Poe’s School Days

In June, 1815, when Edgar was about six years old, his adoptive father and mother, with an aunt, went to England to stay several years. Before starting, Mr. Allan bought a Murray’s reader, two...

German

January 30, 2016

Ad Finem

The years they come and go….

English

January 30, 2016

Twins

“In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother…”

English

December 17, 2015

The Ivy Green

“Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green…”

audio / English

October 18, 2015

The Eve of St. Agnes

“St. Agnes’ Eve– Ah, bitter chill it was…”

American

September 27, 2015

The Genesee

“Tho’ many fair and famous streams beneath the sun…”

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