The Concert (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
No, I will go alone. I will come back when it's over. Yes, of course I love you. No, it ...
Singing Poems (1775 Poems)
The Singing-Woman From The Wood’s Edge (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
Air (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Naturally it is night. Under the overturned lute with its One string I am going my way Which has a ...
Before The Flood (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Why did he promise me that we would build ourselves an ark all by ourselves out in back of the ...
Forget (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
Lucinda Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
In Bondage (Claude McKay Poems)
I would be wandering in distant fields Where man, and bird, and beast, lives leisurely, And the old earth is ...
Russian Cathedral (Claude McKay Poems)
Bow down my soul in worship very low And in the holy silences be lost. Bow down before the marble ...
A Song of Enchantment (Walter de la Mare Poems)
A song of Enchantment I sang me there, In a green-green wood, by waters fair, Just as the words came ...
Alexander (Walter de la Mare Poems)
It was the Great Alexander, Capped with a golden helm, Sate in the ages, in his floating ship, In a ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
To Silvia (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Silvia, do you remember the moments, in your mortal life, when beauty still shone in your sidelong, laughing eyes, and ...
To Robert Browning (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
There is delight in singing, though none hear Beside the singer; and there is delight In praising, though the praiser ...
January 2 (David Lehman Poems)
The old war is over the new one has begun between drivers and pedestrians on a Friday in New York ...
1819 New Year’s Carrier’s Address (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village ...
Birds of Prey (Claude McKay Poems)
Their shadow dims the sunshine of our day, As they go lumbering across the sky, Squawking in joy of feeling ...
On the Road to Nowhere (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
On the road to nowhere What wild oats did you sow When you left your father's house With your cheeks ...
The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A little colt - broncho, loaned to the farm To be broken in time without fury or harm, Yet black ...
The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A BROADSIDE DISTRIBUTED IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS Censers are swinging, Over the town; Censers are swinging, Look overhead! Censers are swinging, ...
Where Is David, the Next King of Israel? (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Where is David? . . . O God's people, Saul has passed, the good and great. Mourn for Saul the ...
The City That Will Not Repent (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing ...
The Drunkards in the Street (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The Drunkards in the street are calling one another, Heeding not the night-wind, great of heart and gay, - Publicans ...
Rhymes for Gloriana (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH This doll upon the topmost bough, This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress, Was taken ...
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 ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
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 Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
Tortoise Shout (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...
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 ...