One Year After (Claude McKay Poems)
I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided ...
Passion Poems (1980 Poems)
Romance (Claude McKay Poems)
To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper soft and ...
The City’s Love (Claude McKay Poems)
For one brief golden moment rare like wine, The gracious city swept across the line; Oblivious of the color of ...
The Plateau (Claude McKay Poems)
It was the silver, heart-enveloping view Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day, That ...
Motel Seedy (Thomas Lux Poems)
The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base (a huge red slug with a hole where its heart ...
To O.E.A. (Claude McKay Poems)
Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Oh, Is It Love? (Amy Levy Poems)
O is it Love or is it Fame, This thing for which I sigh? Or has it then no earthly ...
Sonnet (Amy Levy Poems)
Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I Who but a little time ago was tost High on the waves ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Beggar’s Valentine (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Kiss me and comfort my heart Maiden honest and fine. I am the pilgrim boy Lame, but hunting the shrine; ...
Where Is the Real Non-Resistant (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Matthew V, 38-48.) Who can surrender to Christ, dividing his best with the stranger, Giving to each what he asks, ...
Assurance (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss Still floated on my lips. For we had strayed Together ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
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 ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
Bavarian Gentians (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, ...
In Absence. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine ...
Craving for Spring (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush ...
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, ...
Lotus Hurt by the Cold (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
How many times, like lotus lilies risen Upon the surface of a river, there Have risen floating on my blood ...
“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?) ...
To Lady Jane (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Romance was always young. You come today Just eight years old With marvellous dark hair. Younger than Dante found you ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
True Love (Judith Viorst Poem)
It is true love because I put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues ...