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 iowa (21 Poems)
A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
Cousin Bell: An Incident In Real Life (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A dark fir-wud hings ower the burn,That wannerin' jinks roun' monny a turn,Far doon oot through the lanely dell,By whilk ...
Wentworth Alexander, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Son of Dr. WILLIAM and Mrs. MARY WENTWORTH ALEXANDER, died atFayette, Iowa, May, 1861, aged 2 years.Coming in from play, ...
Dear Deborah, (Deborah Ager Poems)
They tell me that your hearthas been found in Iowa,pumping along Interstate 35.Do you want it back?When the cold comes ...
The Neighborhood (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
The Weather-Prophet (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
A Fable."WHAT can the matter be with the thermometer?Is it the sun or the moon or the comet, orSomething broke ...
Letter To Kizer From Seattle (Richard Hugo Poem)
Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape in the Iowa tulips. ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
Dear Deborah (Deborah Ager Poem)
They tell me that your heart has been found in Iowa, pumping along Interstate 35. Do you want it back? ...
Summer Nights (Deborah Ager Poem)
Lamoni, Iowa The factory siren tells workers time to go home tells them the evening has begun. When living with ...
From Paumanok Starting. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; To ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
White Hands (Carl Sandburg Poems)
FOR the second time in a year this lady with the white hands is brought to the west room second ...
Omaha (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RED barns and red heifers spot the green grass circles around Omaha-the farmers haul tanks of cream and wagon loads ...
Portrait (Carl Sandburg Poems)
(For S. A.)TO write one book in five years or five books in one year, to be the painter and ...
Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
I Sing The Body Electric (Philip Levine Poems)
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...