Edward Lear Poems: 11 Nonsense Classics, Full Text
A couple sails off in a pea-green boat, a whole family goes to sea in a sieve, and a lonely man wanders a dark plain with a lamp burning inside a nose he wove himself. All three scenes come from Edward Lear poems, the nonsense songs and limericks of an English landscape painter published between […]
D.H. Lawrence Poems: Famous Works and Full Text
D.H. Lawrence wrote about a snake at a water trough, a ripe fig, a piano, and his own death with the same blunt curiosity, and almost no two of those poems sound alike. The D.H. Lawrence poems readers reach for first are “Piano,” “Snake,” “Figs,” “Self-Pity,” “The Ship of Death,” and “Bavarian Gentians,” which together […]
Blackberry Picking Poem by Seamus Heaney: Full Text
Each late August, the speaker in Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry-Picking” fills cans with ripe fruit, and each year the fruit spoils in storage. That small, repeated letdown is the subject of this 24-line poem from his 1966 collection Death of a Naturalist, and it makes the blackberry-picking poem a lesson in how fast sweet […]