If you’re looking for quick poetry for reflection, Rumi’s work is a stellar place to start. This short but powerful set of verses comes from The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a collection of ...

The 1872 edition spread these Civil War poems throughout the book, suggesting that the war ... maturity and decline; in short, the chronology of a life. Still widely read today, it serves as ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part ... like the recent book bans targeting ...