All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Burns sent 'Ode to Spring' to George Thomson, the editor of A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs (1793-1818), in January 1795. Burns claimed that he was challenged by an acquaintance to ...

Beatriz Fernandez was the first person to submit a Zip Ode in 2015, about her neighborhood. This year marks the tenth ...

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction ...

The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Organizers have announced they are now accepting entries for the 10th annual Ode to the ZIP Code poetry ... of words in each line of the poem is determined by the ...

Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere.

In her poem Cywydd y Cedor (‘Ode to the Vagina’), she challenged the convention of male poets to praise every part of a woman’s body apart from her genitalia. Mechain’s witty, combative verses, ...