Presented here are a few of the Master Poets who have learned and are teaching on the Higher Plane of Muse.
John Donne 1572-1631 (Death Be Not Proud)
Lord Byron 1788-1824 (She Walks in Beauty Like the Night)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 (If Thou Must Love Me)
Robert Browning 1812-1889 (Meeting At Night)
William Wordsworth 1770-1850 (The World Is Too Much With Us)
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 (To Be Or Not To Be)
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 (A Light Exists In Spring)
John Keats 1795-1821 A Thing Of Beauty)
Walt Whitman 1819-1892 (From Song Of Myself)-The Moderator’s favorite poet
Percy Bysshe Shelly 1792-1822 ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’
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As a poetry lover, I just have to comment that this section of Master Poets is a wonderful and uplifting addition to the site! All these poets are truly Masters of their craft. I am especially delighted to see one of my all-time favorites here, Emily Dickinson, as well as Will Shakespeare, John Donne, the Brownings, Whitman, Wordsworth, Lord Bryon, and Keats. The format of being able to hear the poems being read is excellent too. May I suggest the inclusion of Kahlil Gibran? Thank you!
I, too, love poetry–my favorite poets being Rumi, Gibran, and Shakespeare. I am also attracted to Poe’s dark expression. When I read his work, I see the Light that he didn’t have, and in the contrast, that Light is most Radiant, Beautiful, Revealing.
Love and Light
Na’imah
Spring overall. But inside us
there’s another unity.
Behind each eye here,
one glowing weather.
Every forest branch moves differently
in the breeze, but as they sway
they connect at the roots.
–Rumi