This is the only poem that really matters. Let the rest go and listen in to this 13th century classic by Rumi.

The poem that united Elizabeth Barrett with her husband, Robert Browning.

Find the full text of the poem here: bartleby.com/371/511.html

Read more about Elizabeth Barrett Browning here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-barrett-browning

Listen here to the famous short story, The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin.

Find the full text of the story here: https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/

To Be or Naught to Be, a short story about a gas-chamber created Utopian future, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Read the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm

Hear this famously dark and beautiful poem of haunting lost love, written by the great Edgar Allan Poe.

Find the full text of this poem here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17192/17192-h/17192-h.htm

Read more about this poem here: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70095/9-mournful-facts-about-edgar-allan-poes-raven

My reading of the darkly enchanting, early feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.

You can find the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

Please find more info about Charlotte Perkins Gilman here: 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Perkins-Gilman 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman

Enjoy this beautiful Christmas classic with a cup of mulled wine, and a fire in the hearth, and count your many blessings.

You can find the full text of this story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7256/7256-h/7256-h.htm

The beautiful Desiderata, written in the early 1920s. This piece is a beacon for dark days.

Read more info about Max Ehrmann here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ehrmann

You can find the full text of this poem here: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

I read the darkly beautiful love poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Find the full text of this poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee

And more info on Edgar Allen Poe here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

A reading of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, written by James Madison.

Find the full text of the Bill of Rights here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2/2-h/2-h.htm

And more info about James Madison here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison