‘Lullaby’ is a poem by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907-73). It was published in 1937, when Auden was still living in England (he would depart for the United States in early 1939). The poem is an example of a love poem, but there are a number of things […]
It can be hard trying to find the words to tell a loved one how you feel – passionate, loved-up, longing for their touch, or just head-over-heels happy that they exist. In this post, we’ve compiled five of the best poems for boyfriends, but rather than seeing these narrowly as […]
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was a remarkable woman: as well as her writing, she is also celebrated for introducing smallpox inoculation to Britain, half a century before Edward Jenner developed vaccination against the disease. ‘A Hymn to the Moon’ is a wonderful short poem about the moon. Written in […]