NONSENSE SONGS. Edward Lear. Ills. by Bee Willey. Margaret K. McEldery Books. $16. Ages 4-8. Edward Lear, with the illustrative talents of Bee Wiley, has assembled a group of nonsense rhymes that w… ...

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 ...

It’s not real poetry unless it rhymes. ... It’s called “52 in ’25” and plays off his Anvil Falls series, which has been running in the Sun Journal since early 2023.

Recently I got a very nice computer-generated letter from an outfit called the National Library of Poetry. “Dear Dave,” the letter begins. “Over the past year or so we have been r… ...

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.

It’s the final two days of National Poetry Month, sparking a perusal of the verse section of my home library. Quality poetry, as noted by Ezra Pound, should be news that stays news, and three of ...

On her multimillion-selling album “Pieces of You,” Jewel asks, “Who Will Save Your Soul?” But now that the 24-year-old singer-songwriter has published “A Night Without… ...

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880. Skip to Content, ... teddy bears or love sonnets and poems. One poet ... using rhyme to employ a musicality in her stanzas that is almost constant ...

NEWRY — In honor of Emily Dickinson’s 191st birthday this December 10th, The Bethel Citizen had a poetry contest to see who could write a poem in likes of her wit and darkness but in relation ...

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.