William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

The Northern Kentucky writer publishes the fourth volume of his Wild Sonnets project, marrying tradition and trend in seven-line stanzas. The mission statement on your website mentions your interest ...

So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it’s hard to chose one as This Season’s Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” made of an animal poem ...