Poetry

A poem about asking for the gift of empathy.

In 1660, John Dryden wrote the prefix to a collection of poems by his brother-in-law (and sometimes patron) Sir Robert Howard. A few lines from Dryden’s prefix poem appear in five places throughout the Canyon—from the Headwaters activity barn to the Cody Center to Lavernis Royal’s hand stenciling outside the Dryden room at Laity Lodge’s Black Bluff.

Read this commentary on the stanza from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" carved on the entrance sign to Linnet’s Wings on the H. E. Butt Foundation Camp property.

These three couplets from William Blake are etched into four places around the Foundation’s property: twice in the Canyon and twice in the Kerrville offices.

A reflection by Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Love's Lantern," and how our own lanterns can guide us.

American poet Edwin Markham writes, "Love and I had the wit to win..."

A poem by Arthur Hugh Clough.

A poem by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) from Sonnets, First Series, VI.

Echoes Issue 9 features an excerpt from the poem Summer Images by John Clare (1793-1864).

An excert from Iron Woman by Diane Glancy.

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.