Poems by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Poems by William Blake. Poems by Robert Frost. Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, and after his fathers death in 1885, he moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he became interested in reading and writing poetry while in high school.
Frost attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but never received a degree. He was a jack of all trades, and had many different occupations after leaving school, including a teacher, a cobbler, and an editor of the local newspaper, the "Lawrence Sentinel". His first published poem was "My Butterfly: An Elegy" in the New York literary journal "The Independent" in 1894. A year later he married Elinor Miriam White, with whom he shared valedictorian honours with at his Massachusetts High School.
Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. A Magnificent American poet, short story writer, journalist, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Edgar was orphaned at an early age, and was sent to live with a foster family, the Allans, in Richmond, Virginia. Young Poe was never officially adopted by the Allans, and was eventually disowned by the family after years of disputes. Poe won a short story contest at the age of 24 and therefore became a literary critic for the "Southern Literary Messenger". Shortly after that, he married his cousin, Virginia, who was 13 at the time, in 1836 at the age of 27. Poems by e.e. cummings. Pablo Neruda - All poems of Pablo Neruda.