Category Archives: Poems
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
BY EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, [...]
AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE
The Eagles Same dances in the same old shoes Some habits that you just can’t [...]
For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most [...]
Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb [...]
Furry Bear
A. Milne If I were a bear, And a big bear too, I shouldn’t much [...]
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop [...]
Evening
Dorianne Laux Moonlight pours down without mercy, no matter how many have perished beneath the [...]
Risk
By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in [...]
Ode to the West Wind
By Percy Bysshe Shelley I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, [...]
A Psalm of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist [...]