Like “Dream Song,” which appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day this past April, today’s poem by Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) invites the reader to indulge in a little frisson of creepiness. Whether ...

Let too many strong ba-boom-ba-boom lines pound by, and the poem turns into bombast or nursery rhyme. With “Things That Go,” The New York Sun concludes its week of celebration of the poetry of the ...

Little kids grow up loving rhyming text in picture books, and you can nurture their taste for lyrical lit as they get older with entertaining poetry collections and novels in verse. Our list offers… ...

You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. ... Poem 2. Soon the sun will fade from the sky, And the stars will take over the night.

By age 6, I’d memorized dozens of tongue twisters and nursery rhymes … I’d inadvertently acquired a portable toolbox for penning my future poems, writes Maurya Simon.

You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. ... Poem 2. Soon the sun will fade from the sky, And the stars will take over the night.