Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...