Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

The deeper meaning highlights the fleeting nature of beauty and the lasting power of true, selfless love. This poem is in the public domain. Shelley's poem uses imagery from nature to illustrate ...

Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of nature and solace in walking among the trees and hills.

Mr. Longley included flowers in another public poem about the Troubles, “The Ice-Cream Man.” It begins with these lines: His subjects were consequential — love, nature and the nature of man ...