India, Aug. 18 -- Goswami Tulsidas remains one of the most influential figures in the Indian devotional and literary tradition. Best known for Ramcharitmanas, Tulsidas wrote numerous devotional ...

Summer's in full swing. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing and the flowers are in full bloom. But does the promise of sunny days fill you with delight or foreboding? These German poems ...

Poetry is the original ear-worm. Something you learnt by heart at primary school can still trip off your tongue 30 years later. Below are some poems that will have somehow, over the years, clawed ...

Take just a moment to estimate how many songs you know by heart. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Now, how many poems do you have memorized? For most modern readers, even poetry fans, that number's pretty ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

Poetry is the music of our soul. The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, popularly known as P.B. Shelley, wrote, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar ...

When the poet-editors of Candlestick Press invited me to choose and introduce Ten Poems from Ireland, they made only one stipulation – that I include a work of my own. Otherwise I could chart any ...