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Wallace Stevens

Now considered one of the great modernist poets, Wallace Stevens didn't receive many literary honors until late in life: He was over 70 when he won the National Book Award twice (1950 and 1954) and…

Carolyn Leonhart

Carolyn Leonhart may be best known as a backup vocalist for Steely Dan; she has toured with the group internationally, and sings backup vocals on two of their albums: Two Against Nature (2001) (which…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: The Vine-Shroud

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'My Head Is Wild with Weeping'Note on Poems of 1818, by Mrs. ShelleyFragment: The Vine-Shroud Published by W.M. Rossetti, 1870. Flourishing vine, whose…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Beclouded

by EmilyDickinsonAutumnThe HemlockBeclouded Beclouded The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind…

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Sailing

Hiawatha's Friends Hiawatha's Fishing Hiawatha's Sailing "Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in…

Sara Teasdale: The Garden

The GardenMy heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-…

Sara Teasedale: Love-Free

Love-FreeI am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn, Swift and intent, asking no joy from another, Glad to forget all of the passion of April Ere it was love-free.I am free…

William Alexander Percy: Overtones

OvertonesWilliam Alexander PercyI heard a bird at break of day Sing from the autumn trees A song so mystical and calm, So full of certainties, No man, I think, could listen long Except…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Waning Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn: A DirgeTo the MoonThe Waning Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Stanza

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To-MorrowFragment: A WandererStanza Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. Connected by Dowden with the preceding. If I walk in…