While TV and multimedia are becoming a vital part of our world, literature is still very important to our society. It is important that in our rush to embrace the eletronic culture, that we do not leave the art of enjoying a good book behind. (And, yes I do realize that not all these are poems.)
  • Overheard At Woodstock Animaniacs
  • College Essay: Anonymous
  • My Last Duchess: by Robert Browning
  • Kubla Khan (Fragment): by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (c. 1816)
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Proufrock: by T.S. Eliot
  • Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening: by Robert Frost
  • Catch22 (excerpt): by Joseph Heller
  • Comus: by John Milton
  • Don Giovanni (Synopsis): by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Raven: by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Turandot (Synopsis): by Giacomo Puccini
  • Ozymandias: by Percy Bysshe Shelley (c. 1818)
  • The Art of War (incomplete): by Sun-tzu
  • Fortunes: Straight from unix.
  • Thought for the Day: courtesy of the TFTD list-serve

    • A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes, especially in matters of love, nothing beats the right words at the right time.
  • Love Me Little, Love Me Long: Anonymous
  • To His Love: Anonymous
  • Summum Bonum: by Robert Browning
  • She Walks in Beauty: by George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: by Christopher Marlowe
  • To His Coy Mistress: by Andrew Marvell(c.1650)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (excerpt): by William Shakespeare
  • Savage Love: by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin (c. 1981)

    • Let's not forget music.
  • I Wanna Be There: Blessid Union Of Souls
  • What Would Happen: Meredith Brooks
  • Un-break My Heart: Toni Braxton
  • I Love You: Celine Dion
  • It's All Coming Back To Me Now: Celine Dion
  • End Of The World: Expose
  • Ugly Girl: Fleming & John
  • Foolish Games: Jewel
  • On My Own: Les Miserables
  • Voices: Macross Plus **
  • Killed By A Flower: Billy Mann
  • One Last Cry: Brian McKnight
  • 88 Lines About 44 Women: Nails
  • Don't Speak: No Doubt
  • Fantasia: Record of Lodoss Wars **
  • Introduction: Record of Lodoss Wars **
  • Great Divide: Semisonic *
  • Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind *
  • Nobody Knows: Tony Rich

    * Albums
    ** Okay. Okay. So maybe they lose something in the translation, but you get the point.


    • A tribute to those that made literature what it is.
  • The Bartleby Library: A collection of great literary works.
  • William Faulkner: The Sound And The Fury.
  • Joseph Heller: The creater of the term Catch 22.
  • Ernest Hemingway: One of the most influencial authors of the english language.
  • Herman Melville: Thar she blows!