Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

There have been compromises too as ‘War’ articulates – “She’s … just an ordinary woman/ with a cowardly heart” But, on the whole, the poems breathe gratitude to life and are ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets ... emerged from “democracy in contact with Puritanism,” to use a nice phrase that George ...

Olivia's poetry proved to be especially poignant as ... as George cleared a woodland space at Friar Park, ushering in new life even as his body began to fade. In his final moments, Olivia writes ...