In On A Shadow In A Glass
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who …
In Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…
In The Poacher, A Serious Ballad
There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health…
In Canadian Boat-Song
Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829:"The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished memb…
In Beauty Making
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved no…
In Tramp and Fish
James McIntyre, called The Cheese Poet, was a Canadian poet.McIntyre was born in Forres, Scotland and came to Canada in 1841 at the age of 1…
In July
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her …
In The First Jasmines
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…
In The Three Rulers
Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was…
In Wedlock
This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. (Summary by David Lawrence)
In The Charm
To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — &…