Jane Kenyon and I almost avoided marriage because her widowhood would have been so long, between us was there such a radical difference in age. And yet today it is twenty-two years since she died, of ...

While reading some of Tagore's last poems from Shesh Lekha—translated by Kaiser Haq and Fakrul Alam and printed in The Essential Tagore— I could not stop relating Tagore's views on death with the ...

On Kim Hye-soon “The last enemy to be destroyed is death,” (1 Corinthians 15:26) the Apostle Paul declares. He says that death, the “last enemy,” can be destroyed, can be overcome. This is also a ...

In John Keats’ poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears just once in the entirety of his work. This might seem appropriate on the 200th anniversary of the death of ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

Call him the greatest poet or a writer, a musician or a literature expert, but the best name that describes Rabindranath Tagore is India’s Pride. Even when English was Gurudev’s least favorite subject ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Old English word "smite" can mean anything from "affect with feeling" all the way to kill. Samuel Wagan Watson uses it to explain ...

Many people are finding comfort in reading and writing poetry during these difficult times. Here are some reflections on life amid Covid-19 submitted by readers. In the Time of Plague We keep indoors.