Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an intensely public poet and an intensely private man. His own griefs, and they were considerable, barely make an appearance in all the large body of his ...

His poem, “Christmas Bells,” would, over time, become a song titled by the poem’s first line. The poem, which started off celebrating peace on earth, took a sullen turn. “Then from each black, ...

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) was an example of a kind of American — particularly Southern — poetic sense and learnedness that nearly captured literary America from the 1930s to the 1950s. These were ...

Mad River, published in The Atlantic Monthly for May, was the last poem that we received directly from Mr. Longfellow’s hand. Shortly after his death several unprinted poems were found among his ...

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, ...

Five months ago, poet Richard Blanco joined Boston Public Radio to launch our recurring segment, Village Voice, where we turn to poetry to make sense of the news of the day. Today is the second time ...

The Yakima Coffeehouse Poets, a nonprofit formed in 2014 to represent the interests of poets and poetry lovers in Central Washington, is the organization behind this monthly poetry column, which runs ...

Nursery Songs and Kids Poem in English: Watch popular children's rhyme 'Jingle Bells' in English. For popular children rhymes, kids songs, children songs, children poems, baby songs, baby rhymes, kids ...