America Remembers (Paul Engle Poems)
HERE by this midland lake, the sand-shored waterThat pulses with no sea-tide heart, where the grainOf a nation pauses on ...
Poems about grandfathers (20 Poems)
The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
1946-47 (Jibanananda Das Poems)
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
British Association, Notes Of The President’s Address (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
Blazing Accusation (May Miller Poems)
Too early a death for those who younghave lost prophecy in blast and flame.The broken have been assembledas best could ...
East (Rachel Korn Poems)
In this direction my father turned his face,With his prayer shawl over his head.Here are the fields and forestsHe walked ...
Ogs (C J Dennis Poems)
It chanced one day, in the middle of May, There came to the great King SploshA policeman, who said, while ...
Song For The Heroes (Alexander Comfort Poems)
I wonder sometimes if the soldiers lyingunder the soil, wrapped in their coats like beggarssleeping under an arch, their hands ...
Knitting Socks (Anonymous Americas Poems)
CLICK, click! how the needles goThrough the busy fingers, to and fro--With no bright colors of berlin wool,Delicate hands today ...
Ancestors (Cesare Pavese Poems)
Stunned by the world, I reached an agewhen I threw punches at air and cried to myself.Listening to the speech ...
Thoughts (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
If I walk the noisy streets,Or enter a many thronged church,Or sit among the wild young generation,I give way to ...
Portrait By Alice Neel (Aaron Kramer Poems)
I'm not sure there will be walls or eyes but if there are this portrait may be wondered at. Let ...
Sequel Of Appomattox (Donald Grady Davidson Poems)
A whisper flies to the empty sleevePinned on the braidless coatAnd a rumor bushes the scarred young cheek.of a man ...
The Old Jimmy Woodser (Henry Lawson Poem)
The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown, Too old and too odd to be drunk with, ...
Footnote To Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The ...
September On Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Once I saw mountains angry (Stephen Crane Poem)
Once I saw mountains angry, And ranged in battle-front. Against them stood a little man; Aye, he was no bigger ...
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (Carl Sandburg Poems)
"The past is a bucket of ashes." 1 THE WOMAN named To-morrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and ...
Why We Tell Stories (Lisel Mueller Poems)
For Linda Foster I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days our muscles feel a tug, painful ...