My Last Duchess
A Duke’s refined monologue reveals jealousy, control, and a chilling confession.
Annabel Lee
A lyrical elegy of love and loss in a kingdom by the sea.
Ulysses
An aging hero refuses stillness, urging his crew toward one last voyage of meaning.
Remember
A tender sonnet that weighs remembrance against the kindness of letting go.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
A resilient bird in the soul sings on through every storm — Dickinson’s defining metaphor of hope.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Dickinson personifies Death as a courteous suitor on a quiet carriage ride toward eternity.
Sonnets from the Portuguese (43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 explores the depth and endurance of love that transcends both time and death.
London, 1802
An urgent apostrophe to Milton — Wordsworth critiques national selfishness and calls for humble, star-like virtue.
The World Is Too Much With Us
A bracing sonnet against distraction and commerce — Wordsworth pleads for a restored capacity to see the world as sacred.
The Solitary Reaper
A singer in a field teaches Wordsworth an ethics of listening — mystery honored, music carried inward as lasting solace.
Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)
A portable sunrise: Wordsworth’s daffodils show how remembered delight restores the heart in solitude.
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” transforms remembered nature into moral vision — attention ripened by time becomes wisdom.