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1. Boy and Father - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2535 times on American Poems.
THE BOY Alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer.
The leather law books of Alexander’s father fill a room like hay in a barn.
Alexander has asked his father to let him build a house like bricklayers build, a house with walls and... (Read full poem)
2. There is another sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 186883 times on American Poems.
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where... (Read full poem)
4. Trinity Place - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3887 times on American Poems.
THE GRAVE of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of Wall Street.
The grave of Robert Fulton likewise is in Trinity yard where Wall Street stops.
And in this yard stenogs, bundle boys, scrubwomen, sit on the tombstones, and walk on... (Read full poem)
5. Po' Boy Blues - written by Langston Hughes
Read 27215 times on American Poems.
When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
Since I come up North de
Whole damn world's turned cold.
I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong.
Yes, I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong,
But this world... (Read full poem)
6. Alexander Throckmorton - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 747 times on American Poems.
In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
But I did not know the mountains.
In age I knew the mountains
But my weary wings could not follow my vision --
Genius is wisdom and youth. (Read full poem)
7. The Dramatists - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 2347 times on American Poems.
A string of shiny days we had,
A spotless sky, a yellow sun;
And neither you nor I was sad
When that was through and done.
But when, one day, a boy comes by
And pleads me with your happiest vow,
"There was a lad I knew--" I'll sigh,
"I do not know... (Read full poem)
8. Sunshine - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 986 times on American Poems.
FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL, NOT A YEAR OLD.
CATHARINE FRAZEE WAKEFIELD.
The sun gives not directly
The coal, the diamond crown;
Not in a special basket
Are these from Heaven let down.
The sun gives not directly
The plough, man's iron... (Read full poem)
9. Worlds - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 911 times on American Poems.
For Alexander there was no Far East,
Because he thought the Asian continent
India ended. Free Cathay at least
Did not contribute to his discontent.
But Newton, who had grasped all space, was more
Serene. To him it seemed that he'd but... (Read full poem)
10. Hope - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 3028 times on American Poems.
The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.
The week is dealt out like a hand
That children pick up card by card.
One keeps getting the same hand.
One keeps getting the same card.
But twice a day -- except on Saturday --
The wheel stops, there... (Read full poem)
11. How We Heard the Name - written by Alan Dugan
Read 752 times on American Poems.
The river brought down
dead horses, dead men
and military debris,
indicative of war
or official acts upstream,
but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing
about the river. Then
a soldier on a log
went by. He seemed drunk
and we asked... (Read full poem)
12. The Pope's Penis - written by Sharon Olds
Read 3875 times on American Poems.
It hangs deep in his robes, a delicate
clapper at the center of a bell.
It moves when he moves, a ghostly fish in a
halo of silver sweaweed, the hair
swaying in the dark and the heat -- and at night
while his eyes sleep, it stands up
in praise... (Read full poem)
13. Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1595 times on American Poems.
Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle
If I prove it steep --
If a Discouragement withhold me --
If my newest step
Older feel than the Hope that prompted --
Spotless be from blame
Heart that proposed as Heart that accepted
Homelessness, for Home --(Read full poem)
14. Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2158 times on American Poems.
FAST-ANCHOR’D, eternal, O love! O woman I love!
O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
—Then separate, as disembodied, or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation;
I ascend—I... (Read full poem)
15. Mrs. George Reece - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 581 times on American Poems.
To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
It may serve a turn in your life.
My husband had nothing to do
With the fall of the bank -- he was only cashier.
The wreck was due to the president, Thomas... (Read full poem)
16. The Garden - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2310 times on American Poems.
There is a fenceless garden overgrown
With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves;
And once, among the roses and the sheaves,
The Gardener and I were there alone.
He led me to the plot where I had thrown
The fennel of my days on wasted... (Read full poem)
17. Honor Among Scamps - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 586 times on American Poems.
We are the smirched. Queen Honor is the spotless.
We slept thro' wars where Honor could not sleep.
We were faint-hearted. Honor was full-valiant.
We kept a silence Honor could not keep.
Yet this late day we make a song to praise her.... (Read full poem)
18. To know just how He suffered -- would be dear -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1838 times on American Poems.
To know just how He suffered -- would be dear --
To know if any Human eyes were near
To whom He could entrust His wavering gaze --
Until it settle broad -- on Paradise --
To know if He was patient -- part content --
Was Dying as He thought -- or... (Read full poem)
19. Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) - written by William Matthews
Read 608 times on American Poems.
The lump of coal my parents teased
I'd find in my Christmas stocking
turned out each year to be an orange,
for I was their sunshine.
Now I have one C. gave me,
a dense node of sleeping fire.
I keep it where I read and write.
"You're on chummy terms... (Read full poem)
20. Five A.M. - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Death & Fame: Last Poems.
Published in 1996.
Read 7725 times on American Poems.
Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing... (Read full poem)
21. Conversation Galante - written by T.S. Eliot
From Prufrock and Other Observations.
Published in 1917.
Read 2248 times on American Poems.
I OBSERVE: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.”
She then: “How you digress!”
And I then: “Someone... (Read full poem)
22. The Heart is the Capital of the Mind -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2511 times on American Poems.
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind --
The Mind is a single State --
The Heart and the Mind together make
A single Continent --
One -- is the Population --
Numerous enough --
This ecstatic Nation
Seek -- it is Yourself.(Read full poem)
23. Mind Loves - written by Jenny Factor
Read 680 times on American Poems.
Who mind loved would not rather be loved body too.
Since all is all. Want eyes through everything. Like
comb through hair. Like water washing gold. Who
Mind loved would not rather love body to body since
all is more than map making map that... (Read full poem)
24. Heaven is so far of the Mind - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2009 times on American Poems.
Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site -- of it -- by Architect
Could not again be proved --
'Tis vast -- as our Capacity --
As fair -- as our idea --
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here --(Read full poem)
25. Cosmopolitan Greetings - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Cosmopolitan Greetings.
Published in 1986.
Read 5762 times on American Poems.
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates
& International Bards 1986
Stand up against governments, against God.
Stay irresponsible.
Say only what we know & imagine.
Absolutes are coercion.
Change is absolute.
Ordinary mind... (Read full poem)
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