"Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love." W.H. Auden
Category: Poetry
Poetry: Homer – The Odyssey
"...he wept as he held the wife he loved, the soul of loyalty, in his arms at last."
Poetry: Frost – A Patch of Old Snow
"The news of a day I've forgotten -- If I ever read it." -Robert Frost "A Patch of Old Snow
Poetry: Beowulf
“Do you want me to read it?” Before me sat half a dozen middle schoolers, watching with that wide-eyed curiosity and amazement that I know will be hidden in only a few short years. They watched and giggled and nodded their heads, some of them even cheering me on. They had already heard me read …
Poetry: Wheatley – On Being Brought from Africa to America
’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.Some view our sable race with scornful eye,‘Their colour is a diabolic die.’Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America I first heard …
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Madelyn Rose Craig 