Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color [...]
The Hollow Men
By T. S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. [...]
A Litany for Survival
By Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial [...]
A Light exists in Spring
By Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period – When March [...]
Unending Love
By Rabindranath Tagore I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age [...]
The Summer Day
By Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This [...]
EQUALITY
By Maya Angelou You declare you see me dimly Through a glass which will not shine, though I stand before [...]
In Time’s Swing
by Lucy Larcom Father Time, your footsteps go Lightly as the falling snow. In your swing I’m sitting, see! Push [...]