The years have not been kind to Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919). A prolific writer of verse, she had excellent sales of her poetry collections in the late 19th century. But as you might guess from, ...

The Spring Lion growls and roars. The Spring Lamb smiles sweetly outdoors. Outside the winds are full of bluster and blow. Above the sun feels warm, both high and low. Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday are ...

At seventeen, William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was already at work on the poem we all used to know, from our old high-school American-literature textbooks, as “Thanatopsis.” We know this poem as ...