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 ...
Snow Poems (3527 Poems)
Last Words (Philip Levine Poems)
If the shoe fell from the other foot who would hear? If the door opened onto a pure darkness and ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
In The New Sun (Philip Levine Poems)
Filaments of light slant like windswept rain. The orange seller hawks into the sky, a man with a hat stops ...
The Light o’ the Moon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child (Philip Levine Poems)
Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep, I keep night watch. Looking for signs to quiet fear, I creep closer to ...
Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I know a seraph who has golden eyes, And hair of gold, and body like the snow. Here in the ...
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 ...
Eden in Winter (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Chant we the story now Tho' in a ...
M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School–Detroit, 1942 (Philip Levine Poems)
He made a line on the blackboard, one bold stroke from right to left diagonally downward and stood back to ...
The Jingo and the Minstrel (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: ...
Belle Isle, 1949 (Philip Levine Poems)
We stripped in the first warm spring night and ran down into the Detroit River to baptize ourselves in the ...
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. ...
Milkweed (Philip Levine Poems)
Remember how unimportant they seemed, growing loosely in the open fields we crossed on the way to school. We would ...
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 ...
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep (Robert Graves Poem)
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her ...
I Resign (Poem)
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities ...