These aren’t just any poems either—they’re some of the most famous and influential lines ever written in the history of the literary form. With these relatively short poems, you’ll ...

Emily Dickinson would know—she rarely left her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. Perhaps the prolific poet was content with letting her mind journey through her transportive short poems.

We know we are beautiful ... Hughes’s take on the subject is this short poem that manages to convey feelings of ...