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If— by Rudyard Kipling - Poems | Academy of American Poets
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster.
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”. Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”. And …
100 best poems - Academy of American Poets
For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance. I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance. My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears. Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years. Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
Poems for Grief and Grieving | Academy of American Poets
Classic Poems on Grief. “ Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother ” by Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés. The ending of my history of grief. . . “ Interim ” by Clarissa Scott Delany. Just one dark hour of shaken depths. . . “ Rose Song ” by Anne Reeve Aldrich. my heart may tell, / …
How to Read a Poem - Academy of American Poets
Nov 27, 2007 · All of these are good qualities to notice, and they may lead you to a better understanding of the poem in the end. But sooner or later, you’re going to have to read the poem, word by word. To begin, read the poem aloud. Read it more than once. Listen to your voice, to the sounds the words make.
Acrostic - Academy of American Poets
Acrostic. The acrostic is a form in which names or words are spelled out through the first letter of each line. The intent of the acrostic, a form derived from the abecedarian, is to reveal while attempting to conceal within the poem. Examples of the Acrostic Form. William Blake addresses the despairs of the plague in the poem “ London ...
About Edgar Allan Poe - Academy of American Poets
1809 –. 1849. Read poems by this poet. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding ...
Glossary of Poetic Terms - Academy of American Poets
Quatrain: a four-line stanza, or unit of four lines of verse, rhymed or unrhymed. Refrain: a phrase, line, or set of lines, usually appearing at the end of a stanza. repeated at intervals throughout a poem. Renga: a form consisting of alternating tercets and couplets written by multiple collaborating poets.