Words

By Silvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like [...]

Democracy

By Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year   Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as [...]

Ars Poetica

By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the [...]

I Dream A World

Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And [...]

First Footfall

By Chanukya The hush is endless, a silence older than oceans, yet it bends, trembling, beneath one small press of [...]

In this short Life

by Emily Dickinson In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much—how little—is Within our power [...]

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one [...]

The Yankees

by Robert Lord Keyes The Yankees are in spring training down in Florida. I can feel them everyday cracking their [...]