Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words that conjure the image of a bird.

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Mountain and the ...

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, ...

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 ...