Hope” is the Thing with Feathers By Emily Dickinson! As with many of her poems, Emily Dickinson takes a summery feeling or concept and likens it to something physical, visible, and tangible. So hope will become a singing bird. Hope, for Dickinson, sings its wordless tune and by no means stops singing it: nothing can […]

Song of Myself By Walt Whitman! When Whitman’s 1855 extent Leaves of Grass was published at Whitman’s very own price – the first version containing simply a dozen untitled poems – even Whitman himself ought to have had little thinking of the have an effect on it would go on to have. Song of Myself […]

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is By Sir Edward Dyer! My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my […]