Rose-Morals (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. -- Red. Would that my songs might be What roses make by day and night -- Distillments of my ...
Sadness Poems (11034 Poems)
The Eagle That is Forgotten (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has ...
The Traveller-Heart (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment) I would be one with ...
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 ...
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, ...
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In Springfield, Illinois IT is portentious, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A ...
To the United States Senate (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...
The Dove (Sidney Lanier Poems)
If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me ...
Bat (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
At evening, sitting on this terrace, When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara Departs, ...
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 Heard Immanuel Singing (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.) I heard Immanuel singing ...
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 ...
The Wild Common (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping, Little jets of sunlight-texture imitating flame; Above them, exultant, the peewits ...
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 ...
What the Coal-Heaver Said (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The moon's an open furnace door Where all can see the blast, We shovel in our blackest griefs, Upon that ...
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, ...
Restlessness (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night, Hold my hand to catch the ...
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 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 ...
The Raven Days (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken, And but the ghosts of homes to us remain, And ...
Profit From Failure (Poem)
The test of a man is the fight he makes, The grit that he daily shows; The way he stands ...
Influence (Joseph Norris Poem)
Drop a pebble in the water, And its ripples reach out far; And the sunbeams dancing on them May reflect ...
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, ...
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Erica Shea Liupaeter Poem)
When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes, ...