The Illinois Village (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
O you who lose the art of hope, Whose temples seem to shrine a lie, Whose sidewalks are but stones ...
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Any Night (Philip Levine Poems)
Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine, the yellowing ash, all the trees are gone, and I was older than all ...
The Hearth Eternal (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went ...
Wisteria (Philip Levine Poems)
The first purple wisteria I recall from boyhood hung on a wire outside the windows of the breakfast room next ...
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Here, where the noises of the busy town, The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not, We stand and gaze ...
Magpiety (Philip Levine Poems)
You pull over to the shoulder of the two-lane road and sit for a moment wondering where you were going ...
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, ...
A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I LOOK on the specious electrical light Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white, Wickedly red or malignantly green Like the beads ...
At First. To Charlotte Cushman. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
My crippled sense fares bow'd along His uncompanioned way, And wronged by death pays life with wrong And I wake ...
Success (Poem)
Success is speaking words of praise, In cheering other people's ways. In doing just the best you can, With every ...
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 ...
It’s the Journey That’s Important… (John McLeod Poem)
Life, sometimes so wearying Is worth its weight in gold The experience of traveling Lends a wisdom that is old ...