O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail
As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale;
When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over in the days gone by.

THE ROAD

Awake and sing, you that dwell in the dust.
Gather yourselves together,
gather together, o people not desired,
blow the trumpet.

Today's poem comes from Anne-fan Victoria K., who wrote this lovely piece about Matthew and Anne's relationship.

Megan Follows is set to star in another literary adaptation, but this time it is of a different medium altogether.

In recognition of some of the first snow storms of the year, we thought we'd post this weather-appropriate poem by prominent 19th century American poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

Today's poem of the day comes from America's first published poet, Anne Bradstreet.

Enjoy today's poem of the day, by English author Lewis Carroll, best known for Alice in Wonderland.

Today's poem of the day comes from Canadian poet Jane Urquhart. Though she has since moved to southern Ontario, Urquhart was born in Little Longlac, a small mining town in Northern Ontario.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,