Category Archives: Poems
Tell All The Truth
Emily Dickinson Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too [...]
Father
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox He never made a fortune, or a noise In the world [...]
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 [...]