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“A Clock Stopped — Not The Mantel’s” by Emily Dickinson

< Return to Emily Dickinson Poems A Clock Stopped- Not The Mantel’s A clock stopped — not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket! The figures hunched with pain, Then quivered out of decimals Into degreeless noon. It will not stir […]

“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson

< Return to Emily Dickinson Poems Because I Could Not Stop For Death Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. We slowly drove- He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility- We […]

VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson

< Return to Emily Dickinson Poems VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. —Emily Dickinson From Poems by Emily Dickinson. […]

How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms

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An inspiring poetry handbook Are you looking for a poetry handbook—one that will spark your imagination and guide you in the pleasures of writing poetry with heart and soul? Explore this inspiring “workshop in a book.” No matter your level, you can make poems that express more deeply and impact more richly. Poems to keep. […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CX (110): Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CX (110) Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have look’d on truth Askance […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CIX (109): O, never say that I was false of heart

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CIX (109) O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify. As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie: That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CVIII (108): What’s in the brain that ink may character

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CVIII (108) What’s in the brain that ink may character Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit? What’s new to speak, what new to register, That may express my love or thy dear merit? Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine, I must, […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CVII (107): Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CVII (107) Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CVI (106): When in the chronicle of wasted time

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CVI (106) When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, […]

Shakespeare Sonnet CV (105): Let not my love be call’d idolatry

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet CV (105) Let not my love be call’d idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so. Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind, Still constant in a wondrous excellence; […]