Category Archives: Poems
Words
By Sylvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling [...]
Human Family
By Maya Angelou I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us [...]
“Blame”
By Mark Kelley I sure don’t blame the hills Nor do I blame the trees [...]
A Litany for Survival
By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the [...]
Freedom
by Langston Hughes Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and [...]
Ulysses
By Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, [...]
If —
Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs [...]
Freedom
by Ambrose Bierce Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every [...]
The Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key (1814) Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What [...]
The Power of Words
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in [...]