Waking In March (Philip Levine Poems)
Last night, again, I dreamed my children were back at home, small boys huddled in their separate beds, and I ...
Fire Poems (6356 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 ...
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 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 Hard Times In Elfland (Sidney Lanier Poems)
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
Clouds Above The Sea (Philip Levine Poems)
My father and mother, two tiny figures, side by side, facing the clouds that move in from the Atlantic. August, ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...
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, ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
The Trap (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...
The Rains (Philip Levine Poems)
The river rises and the rains keep coming. My Papa says it can't flood for the water can run away ...
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 ...
Smoke (Philip Levine Poems)
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...
Eden in Winter (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Chant we the story now Tho' in a ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...
An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire, The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire. ...
The Enkindled Spring (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
Above the Battle’s Front (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John - Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand, Returned, the hate ...
The Mystic Blue (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping, Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping To sight, ...
Holy Day (Philip Levine Poems)
Los Angeles hums a little tune -- trucks down the coast road for Monday Market packed with small faces blinking ...
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 ...
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter (J.R.R Tolkien Poem)
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does ...
Phenomenal Woman (Maya Angelou Poem)
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when ...
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You (Pablo Neruda Poem)
I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting ...