These lines from American poet George E Merrick’s 1920 poem ‘The Royal Poinciana in Bloom’ are an ode to the gulmohar’s ...

Consumption, phthisis, scrofula, tuberculosis (TB)-over the centuries, the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis has gone by many names ...

I sometimes think that the deadliest foe of creative impulse in poetry is the faculty of criticism ... The whole poetic choir would chant thy name; It will not falter: from the heart o'erflowing ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.

The origins of this phrase are obscure, but it’s generally believed to have been heavily inspired by Coleridge, who wrote in his 1825 poem “Work Without Hope”: “All Nature seems at work.

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew ...

Previous work: Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell ... To put us daft; Syne weave, unseen, thy spider snare O hell's damned waft. Poor man the flie, aft bizzes bye, And aft as chance he comes thee ...

The final four stanzas pay tribute to 'honest' Allan Ramsay's revival of Scottish poetry and his influence on pastoral. poetry nationalism nature Skip to top ...

I am absorbed in this elemental thought, I am in the state of an eternal salvation. Stars with dim light twinkle. I am the thunder, blazing, and unstoppable. I am in constant journey.

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Skinny and round ...

Orthodox religiosity tends to be dogmatic and intolerant by its very nature. It makes common cause ... but if I worship Thee for Thy own sake, grudge me not Thy everlasting beauty.” ...