What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 2. Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds.” (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written.

Lines from Mambazham by Vyloppilli Sreedhara MenonThe simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

The poem is about the loss of a beloved friend ... speech without realising they’re actually quoting one of the most famous British writers. Image caption, Two roads diverged in a wood, and ...

Wilfred Owen wrote the first draft of his most famous work in the autumn of 1917 while recovering from shell-shock in a Scottish hospital. Completed in 1918, the poem includes horrific ...

His poem Love In Their Little Veins Inspires is about the seasonal nature of love in birds. Nicholas Rowe was a popular figure in eighteenth-century literary circles and a great friend of poet ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...