What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Ready to get the poetry train rolling? Read these children's poems with your kiddo and unlock the best parts of their imagination. Get Reader's Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser. They just compete for the sake of enjoyment but I’m among them who wants to ...

Because this poem is multi-layered and complex, it is best suited for readers who enjoy mentally unpacking layers of symbolism and interpreting the themes in ways that feel authentic to their ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

His poem Love In Their Little Veins Inspires is about the seasonal nature of love in birds. Nicholas Rowe was a popular figure in eighteenth-century literary circles and a great friend of poet ...

Keep scrolling for 25 of the best poetry books of all time and fill your shelves with cultural masterpieces. Published posthumously, Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam was inspired by a horrifying incident ...

Kozinski embarks on the fifth year of his popular Poetry at the Mansion series. “Language is one of humankind’s great blessings, and words, artfully deployed, can lift us out of ourselves and ...