For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems written in Chinese, many of them carved into the wooden walls of the buildings. Most of the poems are written in the styles of ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman, Lucy Terry Prince was a remarkable woman whose many accomplishments included arguing a case before the ...

This is a poem that was first published in 1906, and tells the story of a highwayman - a thief - and his lover, Bess. On a stormy night, the highwayman rides to Bess' father's inn where she is ...