O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
“But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.“ This poem is an elegy, or a mourning poem, honoring the death of ...
Category: Poetry
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator mourns the loss of a woman he dearly loved. He believes that envious angels took his love from him, but he will not allow death to part them.
To Hope by John Keats
When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my "mind's ey...
Ozymandias
The podcast A History of the World in 100 Objects (learn more here), contains an episode on the statue of Ramesses II. If you listened to the Audio Literature O...
Six Sonnets by Various Authors
Sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.