Of thy nightness. In a world that upheld (and continues to uphold) Eurocentric beauty standards, Langston Hughes (1901–1967) celebrated Black beauty and Black love in “Poem—To the Black ...

LONDON, April 9 -- The Times prints a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which is to be read at the burial of Cecil Rhodes on the hill called "The View of the World," in the Matoppo Hills, Rhodesia ...

Such foreshadowing, of course, is never good news in the literary world of romantic poetry, and Bess has to make a brave sacrifice to save her love. Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the ...