It’s easy to think of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) as a caricature of her own extremes: morbid and (as other of her poems we have run in the Sun suggest) maybe a little hysterical, certainly strange ...

A time to celebrate the return of sunshine and daffodils. What could be better? With winter on its way out and the sweltering heat of summer still a few months away, spring is the ideal season to get ...

I’m writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here’s a fine spring poem from Rose King’s book “Time and Peonies,” from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California. a man in a ...

Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also be a season of ambivalence. After all, for something to be made new and fresh, it first has to have gotten old and worn. Perhaps this is why some ...

A trail of ceramic daffodils accompany a blooming cottage garden at Wordsworth Grasmere, in celebration of one of the poet's most famous works. | ITV News Border ...