Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; [...]

First They Came…

By Pastor Martin Niemoller First the came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not [...]

Words

By Silvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like [...]

Democracy

By Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year   Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as [...]

Ars Poetica

By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the [...]

I Dream A World

Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And [...]

First Footfall

By Chanukya The hush is endless, a silence older than oceans, yet it bends, trembling, beneath one small press of [...]

In this short Life

by Emily Dickinson In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much—how little—is Within our power [...]