This reading of the classic Christmas poem is set to holiday favorites Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, along with fun Christmas visuals that children will love! This makes a perfect Christmas bedtime story for children. A Visit from St Nicholas was written by American poet Clement … Read more
The Raven, by American poet Edgar Allan Poe, was written in 1845. It is one of Poe’s most famous and best-recognized works. It is the story of a mysterious talking raven who visits a young man who misses the woman he loves (Lenore) who has died.
Invictus was written by English poet William Ernest Henley in 1875. It was originally published with no title in 1888, but is his most famous poem. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell … Read more
‘The Arrow and the Song’ was written by acclaimed American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (famous for other poems like ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ and ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’). I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not … Read more
How Do I Love Thee? (or Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was included in a collection of love poetry called ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight … Read more
‘The Tyger,’ written by William Blake in 1794, is one of the most anthologized works in English. (This means it is frequently included in collections of poems.) Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt … Read more
Though a famous free-standing poem in its own right, Jabberwocky was written for Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking Glass, a companion piece to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the … Read more
American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Massachusetts in 1830. Though fewer than a dozen of her poems were published in her lifetime, she wrote nearly 1800 poems which have since been recognized as some of the most important American poetry that has been written. “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches … Read more
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” by William Wordsworth, also known by many as “Daffodils.” Written in 1804, it is Wordsworth’s most famous poem, and was inspired by a real event, when he and his sister Dorothy stumbled across a “long belt” of daffodils. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high … Read more