Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead-swilling crowd.

tennyson's war poem.; a ballad of the fleet--the action in flores harbor--bravery of a british vice-admiral. share full article. april 7, 1878.