Ballade of a Special Edition (Amy Levy Poems)
He comes; I hear him up the street-- Bird of ill omen, flapping wide The pinion of a printed sheet, ...
Success Poems (5537 Poems)
The Gamblers (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Life's a jail where men have common lot. Gaunt the one who has, and who has not. All our treasures ...
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 ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...
Gloire de Dijon (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
When she rises in the morning I linger to watch her; She spreads the bath-cloth underneath the window And the ...
The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The wide Pacific waters And the Atlantic meet. With cries of joy they mingle, In tides of love they greet. ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
Upon Returning to the Country Road (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Even the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...
The Amaranth (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here. . . . Is it for naught high Heaven cracks and ...
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 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 ...
Prologue to “Rhymes to be Traded for Bread” (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
EVEN the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter ...
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 ...
To Lady Jane (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Romance was always young. You come today Just eight years old With marvellous dark hair. Younger than Dante found you ...
On the Building of Springfield (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses' home, That Oxford rules the heart of ...
Yankee Doodle (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung ...
Success (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...
The Chinese Nightingale (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
Symphonic Studies (After Schumann) (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque) (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
The Supreme Sacrifice (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Well-nigh two thousand years hath Israel Suffered the scorn of man for love of God; Endured the outlaw's ban, the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...
Success (Poem)
Success is speaking words of praise, In cheering other people's ways. In doing just the best you can, With every ...
Profit From Failure (Poem)
The test of a man is the fight he makes, The grit that he daily shows; The way he stands ...