Shakespeare (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
Poems about nevada (21 Poems)
Boston Hymn (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
The word of the Lord by nightTo the watching Pilgrims came,As they sat by the seaside,And filled their hearts with ...
The Smoke Traveller (Irving Browne Poems)
When I puff my cigarette,Straight I see a Spanish girl,-Mantilla, fan, coquettish curl,Languid airs and dimpled face,Calculating, fatal grace;Hear a ...
At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DECEMBER 9, 1871ONE word to the guest we have gathered to greet!The echoes are longing that word to repeat,--It springs ...
Nebraska (Jack Kerouac Poems)
April doesnt hurt hereLike it does in New EnglandThe groundVast and brownSurrounds dry townsLocated in the dustOf the coming locustLive ...
from “Boabdil El Chico’s Farewell To Granada” (Margaret Davidson Poems)
"The exiled monarch slowly turn'd away;He could not bear to view those towers again,Which proudly glitter'd in the sun's last ...
America To Russia (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 5, 1866THOUGH watery deserts hold apartThe worlds of East and West,Still beats the selfsame human heartIn each proud Nation's ...
After Election (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE day's sharp strife is ended now,Our work is done, God knoweth how!As on the thronged, unrestful townThe patience of ...
Bus East (Jack Kerouac Poems)
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5years ago - other furies other losses -America'strying to control the uncontrollable ...
Tonopah And Clergy (Norman MacLeod Poems)
In the shadow of the cloister,There are few inclined to roisterWith the men in TonopahSwaggering to primal law.Holy wine is ...
The Water Ouzel (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters!Have you no fear ...
The Abencerrage : Canto I. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Lonely and still are now thy marble halls,Thou fair Alhambra! there the feast is o'er;And with the murmur of thy ...
Nevada (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Sphinx, down whose rugged face The sliding centuries their furrows cleave By sun and frost and cloud-burst; scarce ...
La Guitarra (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Se rompen las copas de la madrugada. Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Es ...
Crossing Nation (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
The Great Western Plains (Hart Crane Poem)
The little voices of the prairie dogs Are tireless . . . They will give three hurrahs Alike to stage, ...
Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Song of the Exposition. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Said The Poet To The Analyst (Anne Sexton Poems)
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. I confess I am only ...
Where Giant Mushrooms Grow! (John Matthew Poems)
In Nevada there is a field where giant mushrooms grow One mile high and two miles wide, they say on ...