Darling Daughter of Babylon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Too soon you wearied of our tears. And then you danced with spangled feet, Leading Belshazzar's chattering court A-tinkling through ...
Desire Poems (2297 Poems)
Our Guardian Angels and Their Children (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels ...
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
The Spice-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
This is the song The spice-tree sings: "Hunger and fire, Hunger and fire, Sky-born Beauty- Spice of desire," Under the ...
Blanche Sweet (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.") Beauty has a throne-room In our humorous town, Spoiling its ...
Lui Et Elle (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though ...
Sweethearts of the Year (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sweetheart Spring Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly, Her gliding hands were fire, Her lilac breath upon our cheeks Consumed us ...
Virgin Youth (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Now and again All my body springs alive, And the life that is polarised in my eyes, That quivers between ...
The City That Will Not Repent (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing ...
Monologue of a Mother (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to ...
Rhymes for Gloriana (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH This doll upon the topmost bough, This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress, Was taken ...
Reproach (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Had I but known yesterday, Helen, you could discharge the ache Out of the cloud; Had I known yesterday you ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
Last Words (Philip Levine Poems)
If the shoe fell from the other foot who would hear? If the door opened onto a pure darkness and ...
Symphonic Studies (After Schumann) (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
Aim for Your Star (Bob Smith Poem)
Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you ...
Be Thankful (Poem)
Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward ...