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 [...]