Poems can also validate your emotional anguish or provide a different perspective to ease your pain in the darkest moments. Use these sympathy poems in cards, messages, texts, or other ways to ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

this poem remains a timeless reflection on identity and survival. “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, / When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore.” Dunbar’s “Sympathy” provided ...