Before my light goes out for ever if God should give me a choice of graces,       I would not reck of length of days, nor crave for things to be;But cry: "One day of the great lost days, one face of all the faces,       Grant me t...

I                                                                         UPON her plodding palfreyWith a heavy child at...

I'm getting a head start on National Poetry Month this year. T.E. Lawrence, the famous soldier, motorcyclist, and author, was also a poetry lover. His large library contained 300 books of verse. Just after the First World War he wrote out his favorite poems in a commonplace book which he called Mino...

Last fall, as network executives, members of Congress and other hotshots gathered beneath a massive tent at Washington's Decatur House to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Hardball," Chris Matthews began to address the crowd....