He died in 1903, at the beginning of a century during which that poem, timeless and universal in its sentiments, inspired these two men, of such different time, place, and predicament from his own.

I'll try harder (I want to be well);It's time to go green, which makes me nervous.And it's not just because the stakes are high,or the taste is plain rotten; like the stairsI just gotta do it.

'Travel in Time' by Tanya Contos was picked by Boston.com as a winner of our Book Club's writing contest. Read her poem on Boston.com.

Oh now, here we go, holdin’ on for the ride, trying to keep breakfast down, time to swallow my pride I’d prefer it if you didn’t press my pass to imbibe Coercion is, in sum, a very bad vibe ...

When she returned to visit the school in 1980, sixth-grade students sang several verses of the original poem during a ceremony around the school’s flagpole, the Evening Gazette reported. Sen.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...