Coming Close (Philip Levine Poems)
Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty ...
Power Poems (4499 Poems)
June Dreams, In January (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
An Abandoned Factory, Detroit (Philip Levine Poems)
The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands, An iron authority against the snow, And this grey monument to common ...
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 ...
The Dead (Philip Levine Poems)
A good man is seized by the police and spirited away. Months later someone brags that he shot him once ...
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, ...
Montjuich (Philip Levine Poems)
"Hill of Jews," says one, named for a cemetery long gone."Hill of Jove," says another, and maybe Jove stalked here ...
To Beethoven (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Wizard in the Street (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and ...
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 Ghosts of the Buffaloes (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry, The windows were shaking, there was thunder on high, The ...
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 ...
Galahad, Knight Who Perished (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A POEM DEDICATED TO ALL CRUSADERS AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERSTATE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS Galahad . . . soldier ...
The Master of the Dance (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing-teacher. ...
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 ...
Influence (Emma Lazarus Poems)
The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep, Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square, The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air, ...
Dreams Nascent (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes Of old, ineffectual lives linger blurred and warm; An endless tapestry ...
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. ...
What I Want (Poem)
I AM POWERFUL! Whatever I set my mind on having, I will have. Whatever I decide to be, I will ...
Prayer (by: An Unknown Confederate Soldier)
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might humbly obey. I asked ...
What is Real Success? (Tim Conner Poem)
Everyone wants success, and yet they often don't know when they have it. For most, it is the maddening chase ...
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 ...
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 ...
I Resign (Poem)
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities ...
If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again (Diane Loomans Poem)
If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later. I'd finger ...