It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of a national newspaper, only for it to vanish without trace, then resurface, 18 years later, and go on to become one ...

Eavan Boland's powerful quote moves us to contemplate our own mortality and how eventual death impacts the love we share in life.

George William Russell (1867–1935), who wrote under the pseudonym “AE,” was an organizer for an Irish agricultural association, helping establish rural credit societies and cooperative banks. Along ...

One needn’t look much further than the Sistine Chapel to know that Michelangelo spent many hours contemplating eternity. In addition to his art, his poetry shows his mind was similarly engaged. His ...

Born in New York City in 1779, Clement Clarke Moore became a noted lecturer and writer. Yet his life would merit little more than a footnote in New York’s history, except for the one poem for which he ...