Poetry Home Page

We feel that poetry can (and should) be the strongest and most compelling form of the written word. In this section of our website, we are going to present a few of the poems that we have enjoyed; poems that had an impact the first time we read (or heard) them... poems that have enriched our lives.

The poems will be listed & linked, with a short description, in no particular order - just how we happen to get to them. Check back every once in awhile to see what we've added... if anything. You should find some old favorites, some you may not have read in awhile and maybe some that are new to you. Enjoy!

Link - Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose; To a Mouse; Auld Lang Syne; Green Grow...

Link - Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven, Annabel Lee.

Link - Robert Louis Stevenson: My Shadow, Bed in Summer, more...

Link - Robert Herrick: Gather ye rosebuds...

Link - Eugene Field: Little Boy Blue, The Duel, more...

Link - Joyce Kilmer: Trees

Link - Mary Howitt: The Spider and the Fly

Link - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, The Village Smithy

Link - Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening.

Link - Robert and Elizabeth Browning: O, To be in England; How Do I Love Thee?; more...

Link - Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!

Link - Ernest L. Thayer: Casey At The Bat

Link - Clement Clarke Moore: The Night Before Christmas

Link - Edmund Vance Cooke: Kisses Kept Are Wasted, How Did You Die?

Link - William Ernest Henley: Invictus