If you don't mind, I'd like to take a minute of your time But you see, it took me more than a minute to make this rhyme So humor me, read on, see what I want to say Only to come of it what may ... We ...

Even the biggest music fans know that lyrics often make the track. These are three one-hit wonders from the 1970s that are more like poetry.

Robert Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, explores one of Walt Whitman's most iconic poems, Song of Myself — and shares his... Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself' Robert Hass: ...

In 1789, William Blake (1757–1827) published his “Songs of Innocence,” and five years later, in 1794, he produced his “Songs of Experience” — binding them both together as “Songs of Innocence and of ...

For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...

"Just last week, I was lucky enough to be one of the singer-songwriters chosen by John Carter Cash to get one of the Johnny Cash poems that hadn't been turned into a song yet and turn it into a song,” ...

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November of 2016 saw the arrival of “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems,” a posthumous collection of unpublished poetry written by Johnny Cash, the first person ever to be inducted into both the country ...