Category Archives: Poems
INVICTUS
By William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit [...]
From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from [...]
The Love Poem
– Carol Ann Duffy Till love exhausts itself, longs for the sleep of words – [...]
Attack
By Siegfried Sassoon At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple [...]
WHEN DEATH COMES
By Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes [...]
Thanksgiving
Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the [...]
Alone
By Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where [...]
“Risk”
by Anaïs Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in [...]
September 1, 1939
H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid [...]
The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers It is not bad. Let them play. Let the guns bark and [...]