Years ago my wife memorized a poem dear to many readers, especially elders, for its melancholy beauty: “When You Are Old,” by William Butler Yeats. Readers who know about Yeats’ unrequited ...

Do you gravitate toward inspirational poems or stanzas of sorrow ... Lucretia Maria Davidson wrote this poem when she was only 15 years old. Written in the early 1800s, “A Song” criticizes ...

When she was 9 years old, a member of her church congregation tasked her with writing a poem for a birthday: Nikki, we need a poem for Mrs. Robinson's 100th birthday next week, can you get to work ...

As everyone you’ve asked to contribute will say, it’s impossible to pick just one favourite Yeats poem. But this is the ... and the ones I love, grow old. I recommend a song of the same ...

Take just a moment to estimate how many songs you know by heart. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Now, how many poems do you have memorized? For most modern readers, even poetry fans, that number's ...