Rudyard Kipling's Great Poem 'If' Has Power to Change Our Mood- Poetry Changes Lives - Read by Chris

On this day in 1935, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born.

On This Day 1685: John Gay | The Beggar's Opera & Timeless Poetry - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1491: Henry VIII Was Born | The King Who Changed England Forever - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1887: Helen Keller Met Annie Sullivan | A Life Transformed- Poetry Changes Lives

On this day 1885 Andre Maurois was born - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1903: George Orwell Was Born| The Visionary Behind 1984 - Poetry Changes Lives

Is Love A Light For Me?

18 June 2026

Poetry Changes Lives - Ulysses !

James Joyce's Enigmatic Poetry - Poetry Changes Lives

Welcome to Poetry Changes Lives - Pause in normal daily posts as I'm on a hospital visit back soon !

On This Day 1184 BC: Troy Fell | The Story Behind the Legend of Helen of Troy - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day in 323 BC: Alexander the Great Died | Rise and Fall of an Empire - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1870: Charles Dickens Died | The Voice of Victorian England - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1810: Robert Schumann Was Born | Sublime Music & Mental Struggles - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1848: Paul Gauguin Was Born | Art, Adventure & Restlessness - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1799: Alexander Pushkin Born | Poetry, Passion and Tragedy - Poetry Changes Lives

The Poem That Haunts Me - By A 15th C Bad Boy - Poetry Changes Lives

Federico García Lorca Was Born (1898) | Poetry, Passion & Spirit of Andalusia- Poetry Changes Lives

Casanova Died in 1798 | Love, Vanity & Late Wisdom - Poetry Changes Lives

Franz Kafka Died (1924) | The Metamorphosis, Inner Strength & Human Resilience- Poetry Changes Lives

Thomas Hardy Was Born in 1840 | Poetry, Memory and Places That Never Leave Us - Poetry Changes Lives

Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer | Unfailing Source of Wisdom, Peace & Calm - Poetry Changes Lives

Ramses II Becomes Pharaoh (1279 BC) | Ozymandias, Empires and Transient Power - Poetry Changes Lives

Christopher Marlowe's Short Life (1564–1593) | Poet, Playwright and Mystery - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1874: G.K. Chesterton Born | Lepanto, The Donkey and Lay-Theology - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1140: Xin Qiji Born The Voice of Chinese Poetry - War and Wisdom - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1703: St Petersburg Founded | Peter the Great & Cavafy’s The City - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1859: A.E. Housman Was Born | A Shropshire Lad & On Wenlock Edge - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson Was Born | Truth, Mysticism and Brahma - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1950: Field Marshal Wavell Died | War, Poetry and Self-Honesty - Poetry Changes Lives

Sea Dogs - I Started Early - Took My Dog - Emily Dickinson Visiting the Sea - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1936: M Scott Peck Was Born | The Road Less Travelled & Dr Faustus- Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1859:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Was Born | Stories of Mystery & Poems - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1688: Alexander Pope was Born | Satire, Poetry and Wisdom - Poetry Changes Lives

How It Is Done - A Poetry Changes Lives Daily Reading By Chris, As It Happens

On This Day 1925: Malcolm X Was Born | Justice, Violence and Inner Struggles - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1872: Bertrand Russell Was Born | Philosophy, Peace & Brotherhood - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1510: Sandro Botticelli Died | Beauty, Art and Mystic Poet Kabir - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day in 1763: Dr Samuel Johnson First Meets James Boswell - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1659: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Poetry, Travel & Women’s Voices - Poetry Changes Lives

Can We Know How The Greeks And Romans Spoke? - There are Many Clues Available - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1925 Virginia Woolf Publishes Mrs Dalloway - Did She Copy Ulysses? Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1907: Daphne du Maurier Was Born | Jamaica Inn & Emily Brontë - Poetry Changes Lives

Where It All Started - Chris's Commonplace Book - Treasured for Seven Decades - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1820: Florence Nightingale Was Born | The Lady with the Lamp - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day in 1904 Salvador Dali Born - Surrealism - Art, Lifestyle, Poetry - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1915: Monica Dickens Was Born | One Pair of Hands and Samaritans - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1265: Dante Alighieri Born | Divine Comedy, Exile Courtly Love - Poetry Changes Lives

13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD - The Challenging Poetry of Wallace Stevens - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1858: John Meade Falkner Born | Poet, Novelist and Arms Dealer - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1812: Robert Browning was Born | The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1861: Rabindranath Tagore Born | Poetry, Beauty and Politics - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1818: Karl Marx Born | Ideas That Changed the World - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1930: Gandhi Imprisoned | Nonviolence, Freedom and Tagore's Poem - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1469: Niccolo Machiavelli Born |The Reality of Power and WB Yeats - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1519: Leonardo da Vinci Died | Art, Beauty & Emotion - John Keats - Poetry Changes Lives

On This Day 1923: Joseph Heller Born | Catch-22, Angels and Inner Demons - Poetry Changes Lives

Hitler’s Final Days (1945) | Power, Reckoning and Macbeth’s “Tomorrow” Speech - Poetry Changes Lives