Category Archives: Poems

DAYS

Philip Larkin    What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they [...]

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, [...]