Winter Birds

By Andrew Jackson Downing Fair is the sky, for the cloud-rack is lifted- Bright will the day be, though dark [...]

Space

By Elias Padilla The air is frozen, There is no light. The vast is overwhelming And unbelievable. –Unconquerable void.– Ultraviolet [...]

Every Man A King

Timothy Thomas Fortune From hill to hill let Freedom ring! Let tyrants bend the knee! Why should the people have [...]

Promise

Georgia Douglas Johnson Through the moil and the gloom they have issued     To the steps of the upwinding [...]

I Look into My Glass

By Thomas Hardy I LOOK into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, “Would God it came to [...]

‘No Man is an Island’

John Donne No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part [...]

The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot I We are the hollow men  We are the stuffed men  Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. [...]

When Giving Is All We Have

– Alberto Ríos One river gives Its journey to the next. We give because someone gave to us. We give [...]