No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë
“No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte was first published in Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846. Although the Bronte sisters had published this poetry collection in the hope of...
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Versification by Sara Selby
Have you ever wondered what the art of making verses is called? It’s versification — a word you won’t often hear. In this article, Professor Sara Selby clearly describes the principles of prosody, which...
Poetry by Hilaire Belloc
Poetry by Hilaire Belloc In Hilaire Belloc’s Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, Belloc states, “The Moral of this priceless work (If rightly understood) Will make you—from a little Turk— Unnaturally good.” Although many of his...
“Child! do not throw this book about” by Hilaire Belloc
This humorous/serious poetic admonition reminds children to take care of their book and “do not throw this book about”! Hilaire Belloc doesn’t stop with just telling the children what not to do — he...
Charlotte Brontë Poetry
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was a Victorian writer who blended the traditions of Gothic novels with the novel of society and manners, as in her masterpiece Jane Eyre. She grew up in an isolated but...
Winter Stores by Charlotte Brontë
Winter Stores by Charlotte Brontë We take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, From tears and sadness free. And, haply, Death unstrings...
Mementos by Charlotte Brontë
Mementos by Charlotte Brontë Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we’ve set ourselves! How still the lonely room appears! How strange this mass of ancient...
On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë
On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë There’s little joy in life for me, And little terror in the grave; I’ve lived the...
The Missionary by Charlotte Brontë
The Missionary by Charlotte Brontë Plough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean’s wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever English ties;...
The Letter by Charlotte Brontë
The Letter by Charlotte Brontë What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent in thought...
Evening Solace by Charlotte Brontë
Evening Solace by Charlotte Brontë The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;- The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may...
Mr Flood’s Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
In Mr. Flood’s Party, a rhyming narrative poem, Edwin Arlington Robinson tells the story of lonely old Eben Flood and his solitary “party.” Mr. Flood’s Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson Old Eben Flood, climbing...
Amy Lowell Poetry
Poetry by Amy Lowell Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was a poet who, like Willa Cather, beautifully captured the mood of a specific time and place. We have referenced the following four poems by Amy Lowell...
The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell
The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed...
Midday and Afternoon from Spring Day by Amy Lowell
Midday and Afternoon by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Midday and Afternoon Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. The stock-still brick facade of...
Bath from Spring Day by Amy Lowell
Bath by Amy Lowell From the poem “Spring Day” in Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916) Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air....
A London Thoroughfare 2 AM by Amy Lowell
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914). They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a...
The Tree by Anne Finch
The Tree by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) 1 Fair tree! for thy delightful shade 2 ‘Tis just that some return be made; 3 Sure some return is due from me 4 To...
Alexander’s Feast by John Dryden
ALEXANDER’S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST CECILIA’S DAY by John Dryden 1 ‘Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip’s warlike son: Aloft in awful...
Veni Creator Spiritus by John Dryden
VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS, PARAPHRASED by John Dryden CREATOR SPIRIT, by whose aid The world’s foundations first were laid, Come, visit every pious mind; Come, pour thy joys on human kind; From sin and sorrow...
To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman
To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman Thee for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and...
To Jennie by Mark Twain
To Jennie by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Written upon the death of his niece, Jennie Clemens, To Jennie is Twain at his most somber. The only child of his brother Orion, Jennie was...
Genius by Mark Twain
Genius by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Twain at his most satirical, Genius is a biting mockery of not only the eccentric poetic stereotype but the tendency of critics to evaluate work based on...
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots by Mark Twain
Ode To Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d by Mark Twain EIL Editior’s note: Originally appearing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a work by Emmaline Grangerford (a caricature of Twain’s contemporary Julia A. Moore),...
Those Annual Bills by Mark Twain
THOSE ANNUAL BILLS BY MARK TWAIN EIL Editor’s note: Never one to shy away from social commentary or criticism, Twain’s Those Annual Bills is a semi-comical lament of the financial necessities of existence which is...
The Aged Pilot Man by Mark Twain
THE AGED PILOT MAN by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: Being serious for once, Twain penned The Aged Pilot Man as an ode to the steamboat captains with whom he lived and worked. Taking place...
A Sweltering Day in Australia by Mark Twain
A SWELTERING DAY IN AUSTRALIA by Mark Twain EIL Editor’s note: A whimsical exploration of Australian geography and nomenclature, Twain’s A Sweltering Day in Australia is poking fun at both linguistic differences and at...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvell
Marvell on Milton Andrew Marvell composed this poem in honor of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and it became a poetic preface to the 1674 edition of the poem. On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost by...
Lord Byron Poetry
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a Romantic writer who lead a dramatic life filled with passion, poetry, praise, and pitfalls. He traveled widely, wrote with intense emotion, and became famous after the publication...
Darkness by George Gordon Lord Byron
Darkness (1816) by George Gordon Lord Byron The year [1816] that the poem was written was known as the Year Without a Summer– this is because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East...
