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 [...]