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 [...]

Wondering Who You Are

Robert Rorabeck Strange goddesses walk Floridian parks at midnight. They talk to themselves In the voice of songbirds. They don’t [...]

TREES

By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.  A tree whose hungry [...]

OZYMANDIAS

By Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs Of [...]

Fire and Ice

By Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of [...]

Disillusionment of Ten O’clock

By Wallace Stevens The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green [...]