1. Her Grace is all she has -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1928 times on American Poems.

Her Grace is all she has --
And that, so least displays --
One Art to recognize, must be,
Another Art, to praise.(Read full poem)

Oh what a Grace is this,
What Majesties of Peace,
That having breathed
The fine -- ensuing Right
Without Diminuet Proceed!(Read full poem)

3. The Grace -- Myself -- might not obtain -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1139 times on American Poems.

The Grace -- Myself -- might not obtain --
Confer upon My flower --
Refracted but a Countenance --
For I -- inhabit Her --(Read full poem)

An antiquated Grace
Becomes that cherished Face
As well as prime
Enjoining us to part
We and our pouting Heart
Good friends with time(Read full poem)

5. Blessing - written by John Montague
From About Love. Published in 1993. Read 1534 times on American Poems.

A feel of warmth in this place.
In winter air, a scent of harvest.
No form of prayer is needed,
When by sudden grace attended.
Naturally, we fall from grace.
Mere humans, we forget what light
Led us, lonely, to this place.(Read full poem)

Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
Of things we spoke of in our verses early,
Saying: a lovely voice is such as such;
Saying: that lady's eyes were sad last week,
Wherein the world's whole joy is born and dies;
Saying: she hath... (Read full poem)

7. A face devoid of love or grace, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2176 times on American Poems.

A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances --
First time together thrown.(Read full poem)

The Day that I was crowned
Was like the other Days --
Until the Coronation came --
And then -- 'twas Otherwise --

As Carbon in the Coal
And Carbon in the Gem
Are One -- and yet the former
Were dull for Diadem --

I rose, and all was plain --
But... (Read full poem)

9. Further in Summer than the Birds - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2197 times on American Poems.

Further in Summer than the Birds
Pathetic from the Grass
A minor Nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass.

No Ordinance be seen
So gradual the Grace
A pensive Custom it becomes
Enlarging Loneliness.

Antiquest felt at Noon
When August burning... (Read full poem)

Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight
The warrior's bosom in the fields of fight?
Lo! here the christian and the hero join
With mutual grace to form the man divine.
In H-----D see with pleasure and surprise,
Where valour kindles, and... (Read full poem)

11. All forgot for recollecting - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1183 times on American Poems.

All forgot for recollecting
Just a paltry One --
All forsook, for just a Stranger's
New Accompanying --

Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station
Less accounted than
An unknown Esteem possessing --
Estimate -- Who can --

Home effaced -- Her faces... (Read full poem)

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammels and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky. 

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled... (Read full poem)

13. But for the Grace of God - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 709 times on American Poems.

“There, but for the grace of God, goes…”


There is a question that I ask,
And ask again: 
What hunger was half-hidden by the mask 
That he wore then? 

There was a word for me to say
That I said not; 
And in the past there was another day... (Read full poem)

Fitter to see Him, I may be
For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me --
With Summers, and with Winters, grow,
Some passing Year -- A trait bestow

To make Me fairest of the Earth --
The Waiting -- then -- will seem so worth
I shall impute with half... (Read full poem)

15. Hiding Place - written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Read 936 times on American Poems.

Hail sov'reign love that first began,
The scheme to rescue fallen man;
Hail matchless, free, eternal grace,
That gave my soul a Hiding-Place.

Against the God that rules the sky,
I fought with hands uplifted high;
Despis'd the mentions of... (Read full poem)

Although I saw before me there the face 
Of one whom I had honored among men 
The least, and on regarding him again 
Would not have had him in another place, 
He fitted with an unfamiliar grace
The coffin where I could not see him then 
As I... (Read full poem)

17. Must be a Woe -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1295 times on American Poems.

Must be a Woe --
A loss or so --
To bend the eye
Best Beauty's way --

But -- once aslant
It notes Delight
As difficult
As Stalactite

A Common Bliss
Were had for less --
The price -- is
Even as the Grace --

Our lord -- thought no
Extravagance
To... (Read full poem)

As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding... (Read full poem)

19. Always Mine! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 3241 times on American Poems.

Always Mine!
No more Vacation!
Term of Light this Day begun!
Failless as the fair rotation
Of the Seasons and the Sun.

Old the Grace, but new the Subjects --
Old, indeed, the East,
Yet upon His Purple Programme
Every Dawn, is first.(Read full poem)

The ecstasy to guess
Were a receipted bliss
If grace could talk.(Read full poem)

21. The Elves - written by Denise Levertov
Read 599 times on American Poems.

Elves are no smaller
than men, and walk
as men do, in this world,
but with more grace than most,
and are not immortal.

Their beauty sets them aside
from other men and from women
unless a woman has that cold fire in her
called poet: with... (Read full poem)

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I 
may have spoken... (Read full poem)

23. To F--S S. O--D - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 1154 times on American Poems.

Thou wouldst be loved?- then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of... (Read full poem)

Just Once!  Oh least Request!
Could Adamant refuse
So small a Grace
So scanty put,
Such agonizing terms?
Would not a God of Flint
Be conscious of a sigh
As down His Heaven dropt remote
"Just Once" Sweet Deity?(Read full poem)

25. Easter Morning - written by Amy Clampitt
Read 1902 times on American Poems.

a stone at dawn
cold water in the basin
these walls' rough plaster
imageless
after the hammering
of so much insistence
on the need for naming
after the travesties
that passed as faces,
grace: the unction
of sheer nonexistence
upwelling in... (Read full poem)