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Literature is my life. All of my years, I have always found an escape in books and a way to express myself through writing. Poetry is the language of the soul, and prose is simply poetry made easier to read. Most of this website is devoted to prose, but this area shall be devoted to poems that have touched the lives of many. Some are old, some much newer, and many are hard to understand. The attraction of poems, however, lies in the way an emotion of everyday life is expressed so beautifully in a new way. So below, you'll find a few of the poems that I have come to love. They come from numerous sources: English classes, newspapers, and even the phonebook. What they all have in common is that they have captured my mind and allowed me to never forget what feelings they evoked in my own heart, and that I feel it is important for others to see them as well. "The Tyger" by William Blake "The Lamb" by William Blake "the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking" by Emily Dickenson "Hope" by Emily Dickenson "The Heart Asks for Pleasure First" by Emily Dickenson "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne "221 B" by Mollie Hardwick "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy "To the Virgins" by Robert Herrick "On My First Son" by Ben Johnson "If" by Rudyard Kipling "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee Jr. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell "Song" by Sir John Suckling "My Life Has Been the Poem I Would Have Writ" by Henry David Thoreau "Peace" by Henry Vaughan
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