Poesie: Jeffers’ To an Old Square Piano

Tor is a term for a craggy outcrop or lookout.

Poesie: Burgess’ Purple Cow

Some poets live to regret having written wildly successful poems...

Poesie: Tolkien’s Little Princess Mee

Little Princess Mee is a Hobbit poem that was among those written in the margins of the Red Book of Westmarch.

Poesie: Stevenson’s Requiem

Well known, for good reason. If you are mourning, it helps to think of things this way.

Poesie: Dickinson’s “There’s a certain Slant of light”

Neither dash nor dot means anything; it is the difference between that makes the Morse code possible.

Poesie: Rossetti’s The Woodspurge

This English poet with the Italian name was a painter as well as a poet.

Poesie: Tennyson’s Eagle

An old favorite, learned by heart long ago.

Poesie: Tolkien’s Shadow Bride

'Tis a perilous realm, indeed, the Realm of Faerie.

Poesie: Tolkien’s The Last Ship

'I cannot come!' they heard her cry. / 'I was born Earth's daughter!'

Poesie: From The Battle of the Trees

The word 'poetry' also derives from the Greek 'poiein', which has the same meaning as the Sanskrit root 'kri', whence comes 'karma'.