Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
By Linda Pastan Isn’t the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn’t the white page seem unfinished without [...]
A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along the parkway, Our [...]
Winter Birds
By Andrew Jackson Downing Fair is the sky, for the cloud-rack is lifted- Bright will the day be, though dark [...]
Space
By Elias Padilla The air is frozen, There is no light. The vast is overwhelming And unbelievable. –Unconquerable void.– Ultraviolet [...]
Every Man A King
Timothy Thomas Fortune From hill to hill let Freedom ring! Let tyrants bend the knee! Why should the people have [...]
Promise
Georgia Douglas Johnson Through the moil and the gloom they have issued To the steps of the upwinding [...]
I Look into My Glass
By Thomas Hardy I LOOK into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, “Would God it came to [...]
‘No Man is an Island’
John Donne No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part [...]