For more than five millennia, poetry has been a powerful means to express emotion and explore the heart and mind. With access to poems from different places and times, and the potential of poetry to move us in many ways, we can be touched and transformed by the written word. In this collection, you'll find a wide range of poems: African poetry, American poetry, Islamic poetry, Irish poetry; personal poems and political poems; poems about love, conflict, nature, industry ... It's the perfect place to begin a lifelong love for these literary works.