The Firemen’s Ball (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
SECTION ONE "Give the engines room, Give the engines room." Louder, faster The little band-master Whips up the fluting, Hurries ...
Dreams Poems (7209 Poems)
Assurance (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss Still floated on my lips. For we had strayed Together ...
Street Cries (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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 ...
The Mysterious Cat (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A chant for a children's pantomime dance, suggested by a picture painted by George Mather Richards. I saw a proud, ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
The Harlequin Of Dreams (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...
In The New Sun (Philip Levine Poems)
Filaments of light slant like windswept rain. The orange seller hawks into the sky, a man with a hat stops ...
The Black Hawk War of the Artists (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS To be given in the manner of the Indian ...
Life and Art (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Detroit Grease Shop Poem (Philip Levine Poems)
Four bright steel crosses, universal joints, plucked out of the burlap sack -- "the heart of the drive train," the ...
Queen Mab in the Village (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds ...
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 ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...
The New World (Philip Levine Poems)
A man roams the streets with a basket of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches, peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale." My ...
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 Cranes of Ibicus (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Here was a man who watched the river flow Past the huge town, one gray November day. Round him in ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
Do More (William Arthur Ward Poem)
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: ...
You Did It! (Rita J. Henins Poem)
You deserve to be credited for defying the opinions and expectations of many of the people around you. When they ...
You Can Do It (Jerry Aragon Poem)
Peer pressure is not just for teenagers! The ugly face of peer pressure will follow us all to the grave, ...
Use Your Imagination to Find Success (Poem)
Visualize what you want. See it, Feel it, Believe in it. Your mind is a mental workshop. You can build ...
To Believe (Poem)
To believe is to know that every day is a new beginning. It is to trust that miracles happen, and ...
Life Is for Living (Poem)
Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. To live a ...
I Can! (Poem)
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve. Dream great dreams and make them come true. Do it ...
Follow Your Dreams (Poem)
You must follow your dreams You must follow wherever it leads. Don’t be distracted by less worthy leads. Shelter it, ...
Fear Not (Poem)
Fear not that you might make a mistake in believing your dream. Fear rather that if you don't go for ...
It’s Is Not Enough… (Poem)
It is not enough to have a dream unless I am willing to pursue it. It is not enough to ...
Dream My Child (Cheryl Lee Kellems Poem)
Dream of being someone great Of climbing a mountain so high. Dream of being a student so bright Or challenging ...