When I was a Bird–Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was born in 1888 and died in 1923. Prominent in the modernist movement as a short fiction writing, her poetry is lesser know.
Author: Every Writer
This is about me
The Coronet–Andrew Marvell
When for the thorns with which I long, too long, With many a piercing wound, My Saviour’s head have crowned,
The Sleeper in the Valley–Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 and died in 1891. He was for the most part a boy poet. His work was part of the decadent movement.
John Donne–Meditation XVII
John Donne was an English poet born in 1572. He died in 1631. Donne has had a major influence on many generations of poets especially of the metaphysical variety.
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence–James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker was a British poet who was born in 1884 and died in 1915. He was the most famous poet of the Parnassian Poets.
Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was a British poet born Sept. 8, 1886. He died in 1967. Sassoon was served in World War I.
GOOD-BYE–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 and died in 1882. He was a American poet who lead the Transcendentalist movement.
On Virtue– Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753. She was the first African American to have works published in the United States.