The Return (Philip Levine Poems)
All afternoon my father drove the country roads between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for I never learned, ...
Time Poems (10900 Poems)
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 ...
Laus Mariae (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Across the brook of Time man leaping goes On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows ...
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 ...
Green (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
The dawn was apple-green, The sky was green wine held up in the sun, The moon was a golden petal ...
On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane (Philip Levine Poems)
Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane's been drinking and has no idea who this curious Andalusian is, unable even to speak ...
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 ...
Martha Washington (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Written for the "Martha Washington Court Journal". Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time, When windy shams and the rain-mocking ...
The Waving Of The Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Ploughman, whose gnarly hand yet kindly wheeled Thy plough to ring this solitary tree With clover, whose round plat, reserved ...
Craving for Spring (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush ...
The Drunkard (Philip Levine Poems)
from St. Ambrose He fears the tiger standing in his way. The tiger takes its time, it smiles and growls. ...
The Bankrupt Peace-Maker (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I opened the ink-well and smoke filled the room. The smoke formed the giant frog-cat of my doom. His web ...
My Springs (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know Two springs that with unbroken flow Forever pour their lucent ...
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 ...
You Can Have It (Philip Levine Poems)
My brother comes home from work and climbs the stairs to our room. I can hear the bed groan and ...
Something Has Fallen (Philip Levine Poems)
Something has fallen wordlessly and holds still on the black driveway. You find it, like a jewel, among the empty ...
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 ...
Nirvana (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies, Through seas of solitudes and vacancies, And through my Self, the deepest ...
A Woman Waking (Philip Levine Poems)
She wakens early remembering her father rising in the dark lighting the stove with a match scraped on the floor. ...
Then (Philip Levine Poems)
A solitary apartment house, the last one before the boulevard ends and a dusty road winds its slow way out ...
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 ...
Ode To The Johns Hopkins University (Sidney Lanier Poems)
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...
The Simple Truth (Philip Levine Poems)
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets ...
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 ...
When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour Just to invent a fancy style To spread the celebration paint So ...
Opposition (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill, Complain no more; for these, O heart, Direct the random of the ...
The World Is Against Me (Edgar A. Guest Poem)
"The world is against me," he said with a sigh. "Somebody stops every scheme that I try. The world has ...
Storms (Margie DeMerell Poem)
There will be storms, child There will be storms And with each tempest You will seem to stand alone Against ...
It Will Come (Nathan Watson Poem)
When life's largest pressures leave you struck dumb, Just search for an answer; the solution will come. When a tragedy ...
I Can! (Poem)
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve. Dream great dreams and make them come true. Do it ...