This is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1793 and is read here by Lorraine McIntosh. These short lines were written by Burns in John Syme’s copy of the ‘Della Cruscan’, which was ...

Eliot left as much a possible out: the 1963 Collected Poems, published two years before ... smut assembled in the current two volume annotated edition seems unlikely to hold the interest of ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.