However, we do ourselves a great disservice when we neglect the reading of poetry. John Adams, one of the founding fathers of the United States, commended poetry to his son John Quincy. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt committed their favorite poems to memory. Ancient kings were expe...
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If you want to tell your sweetheart just how you feel about him or her, whether it's Valentine's Day or any old day, but you can't quite find the just the right words, maybe these classic poems from some of the greatest poets in the English language might fit the bill or give you...
Death, life, sadness, and hope; poets in the 19th and 20th centuries took these New Year's themes to great extremes as they wrote. Some took an optimistic view while, for others, it seems to have only led to despair. As you explore this theme, be sure to read these classic poems an...
“kept” and overtly sexualized by men many times her age isn’t that far off from the way male record executives marketed Spears and her music career: equal parts spun-sugar and sex. Both women also saw their abusive, alcoholic fathers take active roles in their careers: In reading...
When four poems, satirical chant. [interpretation] China Wind, elegance, Ya and song, collectively known as the four poems, it is a kind of rich content and deep feelings of poetry, it is worth reading. 59, the poem has died, spring and autumn annals. Dont put appraise, good and evil...
On the whole, American girls have a wonderful charm and, perhaps, the chief secret of their charm is that they never talk seriously except about amusements. They have, however, one grave fault–their mothers. Dreary as were those old Pilgrim Fathers who left our shores more than two ...
The triad, being the fundamental principle of the whole Kabalah, or Sacred Tradition of our fathers, was necessarily the fundamental dogma of Christianity, the apparent dualism of which it explains by the intervention of a harmonious and all-powerful unity. Christ did not put His teaching into ...
Poets such as John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost have written eloquent, unforgettable poems about the autumn season.