After great pain, a formal feeling comes
BY EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff [...]
AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE
The Eagles Same dances in the same old shoes Some habits that you just can’t lose There’s no telling what [...]
For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever [...]
Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the [...]
Furry Bear
A. Milne If I were a bear, And a big bear too, I shouldn’t much care If it froze or [...]
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade [...]
Evening
Dorianne Laux Moonlight pours down without mercy, no matter how many have perished beneath the trees. The river rolls on. [...]
Risk
By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful [...]