Follow us on Facebook and Bluesky.
See the Granger's Guided Tour here.
Our 2026 high school poetry contest is live. See guidelines here.
See our Compare Poems tool with examples of reading poems side-by-side.
Quick Search:
Kahlil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran was born in the village Bisharri in what is now northern Lebanon, but which then was Ottoman Syria, to Kamila Jubran and her second husband, Khalil S’ad Jubran, on January 6th, 1883. He was raised in
read more
Featured Poem
Astronomer, The
In the shadow of the temple my friend and I saw a blind man sitting alone. And my friend said, “Behold the wisest man of our land.”
Then I left my friend and approached the blind man and greeted him. And we conversed.
After a while I said, “Forgive my question; but since when has thou been blind?”
“From my birth,” he answered.
Said I, “And what path of wisdom followest thou?”
Said he, “I am an astronomer.”
Then he placed his hand upon his breast saying, “I watch all these suns and moons and stars.”
Poetry Trivia
Question:
What English poet does Johann Wolfgang Goethe pay tribute to as his character Euphorion, child of Helen and Faust, in the second part of his Faust?
Answer
Previous Trivia Questions


