Published posthumously in 1824, "To Night" is a masterful example of the lyrical intensity of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets. Shelley was a revolutionary spirit who often found his greatest inspiration in the sublime f…

First published in his landmark 1925 debut collection Color, "For My Grandmother" is a poignant epitaph by Countee Cullen. One of the most celebrated voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Cullen often blended traditional European poetic forms with theme…

First published in 1849, just months before his tragic and mysterious death, "A Dream Within a Dream" is a quintessential work by Edgar Allan Poe. As the master of American Gothic literature, Poe was renowned for exploring themes of loss and the bre…