A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Wine Poems (2512 Poems)
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
At a Dinner Party (Amy Levy Poems)
With fruit and flowers the board is deckt, The wine and laughter flow; I'll not complain--could one expect So dull ...
Sonnet 17 (John Milton Poems)
XVII Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son, Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we ...
A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I LOOK on the specious electrical light Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white, Wickedly red or malignantly green Like the beads ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
Aladdin and the Jinn (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin. "This tailor-shop sings not at all. Chant me a word of the twilight, Of ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...
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 ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...
To Althea, From Prison (Richard Lovelace Poems)
When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When ...
An Evening Song. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea, How long they ...
June Dreams, In January (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
Night (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, ...
Night Words (Philip Levine Poems)
after Juan Ramon A child wakens in a cold apartment. The windows are frosted. Outside he hears words rising from ...
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, ...
House Of Silence (Philip Levine Poems)
The winter sun, golden and tired, settles on the irregular army of bottles. Outside the trucks jostle toward the open ...
The House (Philip Levine Poems)
This poem has a door, a locked door, and curtains drawn against the day, but at night the lights come ...
Life Is Fine (Langston Hughes Poem)
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I ...