Your Daily Poem is devoted to helping people develop an awareness of and appreciation for poetry. Featured poems are especially chosen for their accessibility and appeal.
We lean on the ropes and let it slowly into fresh cement. (...) Read the full text to 'Hearthstone'. Summary ‘Hearthstone’ by Gillian Clarke wonders over the formation and history of a piece of a stone that the speaker has chosen to serve as the foundation of their fireplace. The...
of water, of vast and beckoning seas. We, too, are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need to call out through the dark. Share this: Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) ...
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To purer regions of celestial light;Enlarg'd he sees unnumber'd systems roll,Beneath him sees the universal whole,Planets on planets run their destin'd round,And circling wonders fill the vast profound.Th' ethereal now, and now th' empyreal skiesWith growing splendors strike his wond'ring ...
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Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, The New by its mighty railroad spann’d, ...
Langston Hughes' poem "Cross" explores themes of identity and racial heritage. It reflects on the speaker's mixed-race background, with a white father and a black mother, leading to feelings of liminality and conflict. The poem's stanzas express regret over past anger towards his parents, w...
The speaker wonders—her tone tongue-in-cheek—why the oppressor is so “upset,”“offend[ed],” and “gloom[y].” Perhaps, she proposes, it is because of her confident “walk,” generous “laugh[ter],” or dazzling “dance.” In other words, the speaker presents her joy—her ...