by Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Inversnaid" is Gerard Manley Hopkins's exuberant celebration of untamed nature. Standing beside a wild, dark waterfall in the small Scottish town of Inversnaid, the speaker (a voice for Hopkins himse

by Robert Frost

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was written by American poet Robert Frost in 1922 and published in 1923, as part of his collection New Hampshire. The poem is told from the perspective of a trav

by Kamala Das

In "An Introduction," the groundbreaking Indian poet Kamala Das does precisely what the poem's title says she will: she introduces herself, boldly proclaiming who she is. As she observes, her complex,

by John Donne

"A Jet Ring Sent" is John Donne's witty lament over an ill-fated love. The poem's speaker addresses the jet ring of the title—a present he sent to his beloved, but one that she has now returned to him

by Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker wrote "Honour Killing" in response to the 1999 murder of Samia Imran, a Pakistani woman whose parents killed her to prevent her from divorcing her abusive husband. In this poem, a Pakis

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Constancy to an Ideal Object" is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's examination of the illusions and pains of impossible love. The poem's speaker, in love with a lady he can never be with, finds himself locke