Fanfares (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
In the old daysAt barn raisingsAfter they worked togetherThey danced together.So lay the floor, Americans,Put up the beams,Ceil the roof,Then ...
Poems about americans (21 Poems)
Villanelle At Sundown (Donald Justice Poem)
Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
To Whom We Are Thankful (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In our prayers, in stopping to give thanks certain to honor God, to whom we are thankful from whom all ...
Too Far Separated (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words of our forefathers, at the first Thanksgiving at the beginning of our nation in the midst of civil ...
A Prayer from Timothy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Holy God, Creator and sustainer of the earth, I offer this prayer for myself and the world. I thank you ...
Barbs on the Heart (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A monument, long in coming of some open scar tissue a stain on our lives chapter of evil when we ...
The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forche Poem)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
The Secret People (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
Dream Song 31: Henry Hankovitch, con guÃtar (John Berryman Poem)
Henry Hankovitch, con guÃtar, did a short Zen pray, on his tatami in a relaxed lotos fixin his mind on ...
Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld (John Berryman Poem)
or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld That isna Henry limping. That's a hobble clapped on mere Henry by the most ...
Blues (Derek Walcott Poems)
Those five or six young guys lunched on the stoop that oven-hot summer night whistled me over. Nice and friendly. ...
On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling ...
Daughter (Gertrude Stein Poems)
Why is the world at peace. This may astonish you a little but when you realise how easily Mrs. Charles ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Look What You Did, Christopher! (Ogden Nash Poems)
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Someone sailed the ocean blue. Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain For a business trip ...
What He Thought (Heather McHugh Poems)
We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...