Shakespeare does some heavy lifting throughout this 14-line poem ... hovel to a home” and giving aging lovers the feeling of being in the summer of their youth. The full poem is worth a read ...

When Muslims from Afghanistan and Central Asia invaded India in the 12th century and made it their home, Urdu language ... A na’at is a poem expressing the poet’s devotion to the Prophet of Islam. A ...

The humor usually comes in the final line ... poem exudes the hilarity of a good duck joke, while being a funny nursery rhyme in one. Lear also wrote limericks set closer to home, like this ...

while the image of one boy looking at another echoes his poems elsewhere about same-sex desire. Throughout, there’s a sense of wanton pleasure in language. Just listen to the line he summons up ...

And it's the same thing in a poem. TESTAMENT: Okay, let's talk about the first and the last lines of poems. Why are they important? CAROLINE: The first line of ... the way back home, or I'm ...

Rarely leaving her home in Southern England, she objects to flying and ... “high aesthetic” mood of the modern architecture ...

It’s how I keep my time. Here is a poem I wrote after I arrived home from the Poetry Out Loud National Competition in Washington, D.C.: i don’t need them. this is enough.

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted ...