Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American transcendentalist poet and writer. A native of Boston, he lived most of his life in that region of Massachusetts, and his book Nature inspired Henry David Thoreau,...
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Why Read Beowulf? by Robert F. Yeager
Why Read Beowulf? By Robert F. Yeager Beowulf, the rousing Old English poem of man and monster, has been a classroom classic for generations. Its own survival as a text is nearly as epic...
Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper
William Cowper’s beautiful hymn, Light Shining Out of Darkness, is best known for the lines “God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform.” Listen to it here.
At the Close of the Year by John Newton
A poem by John Newton (1725-1807), a British sailor and slave trader who experienced conversion and became a writer, Anglican minister, and activist for the abolition of slavery.
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
BY JONATHAN SWIFT
