This is a poem that was first published in 1906, and tells the story of a highwayman - a thief - and his lover, Bess. On a stormy night, the highwayman rides to Bess' father's inn where she is ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman, Lucy Terry Prince was a remarkable woman whose many accomplishments included arguing a case before the ...

William Wordsworth was a central figure in the development of English Romanticism. Born in Cumbria, he published his first poem in the European Magazine in 1787, the year he left school. In 1790 he ...

A poem Donny Chabot wrote as an 11-year-old hockey player in 1979 lives on. Forty-five years after the poem was first ...

The "Something new" poems, as we call them to distinguish them from the "Something old" archive poems (see what we did there?) are about the power of radio listening, and so they make perfect ...