Edna St. Vincent Millay
Explore the life and legacy of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pulitzer-winning poet whose sonnets and lyrical works celebrate love, passion, and independence.
Sara Teasdale
Discover the life and poetry of Sara Teasdale, the Pulitzer-winning American poet whose delicate, musical verse explores love, beauty, and mortality.
Rudyard Kipling
Explore the life and legacy of Rudyard Kipling, Nobel laureate and master storyteller who captured the moral complexities of the British Empire.
The Look
A two-quatrain gem in which the memory of a look proves stronger than any kiss.
I Am Not Yours
Teasdale’s classic love lyric balancing the hunger to yield with the need to remain oneself.
The Kiss
Fulfillment turns ambivalent in Teasdale’s eight-line lyric of longing and disillusion.
There Will Come Soft Rains
Nature’s calm outlasts human conflict in Teasdale’s quietly devastating WWI-era lyric.
The White Man’s Burden
An imperial‑era exhortation whose persuasive craft and racial assumptions make it a central text for contextual study.
If—
Discover Kipling’s timeless code of endurance and self-mastery in “If—,” a father’s lesson in courage and restraint.
Loveliest of Trees
A gentle meditation on the fleeting beauty of life and the resolve to see the cherry bloom before time runs out.
To an Athlete Dying Young
A meditation on youth, fame, and mortality, where early death preserves glory from decay.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A lyrical vision of retreat, where remembered waters guide the heart toward quiet and self-sufficiency.