Perfidy (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Hollow rang the house when I knocked on the door, And I lingered on the threshold with my hand Upraised ...
Hope Poems (6181 Poems)
Echoes (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall ...
An Ending (Philip Levine Poems)
Early March. The cold beach deserted. My kids home in a bare house, bundled up and listening to rock music ...
Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
The Red Shirt (Philip Levine Poems)
"...his poems that no one reads anymore become dust, wind, nothing, like the insolent colored shirt he bought to die ...
My Springs (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know Two springs that with unbroken flow Forever pour their lucent ...
Black Stone On Top Of Nothing (Philip Levine Poems)
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
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 ...
This Section is a Christmas Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
THIS section is a Christmas tree: Loaded with pretty toys for you. Behold the blocks, the Noah's arks, The popguns ...
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 ...
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
To Charlotte Cushman (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream, Till his bright self ...
The Perfect Marriage (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on: Knowing 'twill weigh as much on you ...
“I Love You Sweatheart” (Thomas Lux Poems)
A man risked his life to write the words. A man hung upside down (an idiot friend holding his legs?) ...
How a Little Girl Danced (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
DEDICATED TO LUCY BATES (Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals.) Oh, cabaret dancer, I know a dancer, Whose eyes ...
Here’s to the Mice! (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.) Here's to the mice that scare the ...
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 ...
An Argument (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
Foreign Missions in Battle Array (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
An endless line of splendor, These troops with heaven for home, With creeds they go from Scotland, With incense go ...
The Tree of Laughing Bells (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
How the Wings Were Made From many morning-glories That in an hour will fade, From many ...
Peace Prayer (St. Francis of Assisi)
Lord, Make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, ...
Never Let Go of Hope (Jancarl Campi Poem)
One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally ...
I Can! (Poem)
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve. Dream great dreams and make them come true. Do it ...
Failure (Tim Connor Poem)
Failure It's only a word. But it carries with it so much pain and so little concern so much frustration ...
A Child to Love (Poem)
You can have your wealth and riches All the things so many seek, Position, power, and success, The fame you ...
A Creed to Live By (Poem)
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, It is because we are different that each of us is ...
The Will To Win (Berton Braley Poem)
If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, ...
The Enchantment (Thomas Otway Poem)
Did but look and love awhile, 'Twas but for one half-hour; Then to resist I had no will, And now ...
The Generations of Men (Robert Frost Poem)
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
My Christmas Wish to You (Catherine Pulsifer)
If I could wish a wish for you,it would be for peace and happiness not only now, but for the ...