He had become therefore what he calls himself in the poem's opening stanza, ‘a sixty-year-old smiling public man’. Yeats took his duties as a senator seriously; and they included sitting on a ...

When I was a child, my mother recited a gentle rhyming poem to my brother and me every night. It described how several animals went to sleep, and best of all, it concluded with a personalized stanza ...

Bill Russell saw this coming.His affinity for the Celtics never waned.His eyes were affixed on one Celtics player in ...

Robert Barsky’s epic poem, “The BeltLine Chronicles,” follows an everyday hero traveling Atlanta’s 22-mile Emerald Necklace.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was ...

So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and ...

2, p. 170. Scott ... to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understanding the often conflicting demands of rhythm and metre, can the reader ...

“for the bible tells me so” and you can almost hear Dawn’s silky tones as you read these first lines, the words floating over Dawn’s melody. However, in 1862, New York musician William Batchelder ...

Poet Tina Hacker helps edit a national magazine that prints poetry written by veterans, who share their own struggles and reach out to others.