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1. I Sang - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 3410 times on American Poems.
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless free-hearted
free-throated rythms,
Even the moon remembers them
And is kind to me.(Read full poem)
2. Let Us play Yesterday -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2975 times on American Poems.
Let Us play Yesterday --
I -- the Girl at school --
You -- and Eternity -- the
Untold Tale --
Easing my famine
At my Lexicon --
Logarithm -- had I -- for Drink --
'Twas a dry Wine --
Somewhat different -- must be --
Dreams tint the Sleep... (Read full poem)
3. The Merry Maid - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From A Few Figs From Thistles.
Published in 1921.
Read 1709 times on American Poems.
OH, I am grown so free from care
Since my heart broke!
I set my throat against the air,
I laugh at simple folk!
There's little kind and little fair
Is worth its weight in smoke
To me, that's grown so free from care
Since my heart broke!
Lass,... (Read full poem)
4. The Noon Hour - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 1671 times on American Poems.
SHE sits in the dust at the walls
And makes cigars,
Bending at the bench
With fingers wage-anxious,
Changing her sweat for the day's pay.
Now the noon hour has come,
And she leans with her bare arms
On the window-sill over the river,
Leans and... (Read full poem)
5. Millennium - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Saturday Evening Post.
Published in 1926.
Read 489 times on American Poems.
The great millennium is at hand.
Redder apples grow on the tree.
A saxophone is in ev’ry band.
Brandy no longer taints our tea.
Dimples smile in the red-rouged knee.
The dowagers are no longer fat.
Radio now makes safe the sea—
And the Turk... (Read full poem)
6. Her -- "last Poems" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 22347 times on American Poems.
Her -- "last Poems" --
Poets -- ended --
Silver -- perished -- with her Tongue --
Not on Record -- bubbled other,
Flute -- or Woman --
So divine --
Not unto its Summer -- Morning
Robin -- uttered Half the Tune --
Gushed too free for the Adoring... (Read full poem)
7. Roger Heston - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 989 times on American Poems.
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow
Roped out to grass, and free you know as far
As the length of the rope.
One day while arguing so, watching the cow
Pull at the... (Read full poem)
9. The Flower of Liberty - written by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Read 1038 times on American Poems.
WHAT flower is this that greets the morn,
Its hues from Heaven so freshly born?
With burning star and flaming band
It kindles all the sunset land:
Oh tell us what its name may be,--
Is this the Flower of Liberty?
It is the banner of the... (Read full poem)
10. To the Etruscan Poets - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 1279 times on American Poems.
Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue,
In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You strove to leave some line of verse behind
Like still fresh tracks across a field of snow,
Not... (Read full poem)
11. Child of Jesus - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 1798 times on American Poems.
Sara
allow me to believe in your love
Saint of Awareness
tear of blood dripping
down your Father’s cheek
inside a French Church.
Outside the graveyard i
stood waiting touched
by the truth of your gift
Child of Forgiveness
your... (Read full poem)
12. On Building With Stone - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 749 times on American Poems.
To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother
Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands
For only slaves, is a far sweeter toil than to cut
Passions in verse for a sick people.
I'd liefer bed one boulder in the house-wall than be the... (Read full poem)
13. My Lost Youth - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 4100 times on American Poems.
Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.
And a verse of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still:
"A boy's... (Read full poem)
14. Misgiving - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 4241 times on American Poems.
All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind!'
The foliage follow him, leaf and stem;
But a sleep oppresses them as they go,
And they end by bidding them as they go,
And they end by bidding him stay with them.
Since ever they flung abroad in... (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. Gypsy - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 3126 times on American Poems.
I ASKED a gypsy pal
To imitate an old image
And speak old wisdom.
She drew in her chin,
Made her neck and head
The top piece of a Nile obelisk
and said:
Snatch off the gag from thy mouth, child,
And be free to keep silence.
Tell no man anything for... (Read full poem)
17. Chartres - written by Edith Wharton
From Artemis to Acteaon and Other Verse.
Published in 1909.
Read 704 times on American Poems.
I
Immense, august, like some Titanic bloom,
The mighty choir unfolds its lithic core,
Petalled with panes of azure, gules and or,
Splendidly lambent in the Gothic gloom,
And stamened with keen flamelets that illume
The pale... (Read full poem)
18. Joy - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1112 times on American Poems.
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.
Sorrow is some forgotten word,
And so, except in rhyme, is sadness.
The world is very fair to me –
Such azure skies, such golden weather,
I’m like a long caged bird set... (Read full poem)
19. Recurrence - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 2357 times on American Poems.
We shall have our little day.
Take my hand and travel still
Round and round the little way,
Up and down the little hill.
It is good to love again;
Scan the renovated skies,
Dip and drive the idling pen,
Sweetly tint the paling lies.
Trace the... (Read full poem)
20. I Know I Have Been Happiest - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 6471 times on American Poems.
I know I have been happiest at your side;
But what is done, is done, and all's to be.
And small the good, to linger dolefully-
Gayly it lived, and gallantly it died.
I will not make you songs of hearts denied,
And you, being man, would have no tears... (Read full poem)
21. Supremacy - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2420 times on American Poems.
There is a drear and lonely tract of hell
From all the common gloom removed afar:
A flat, sad land it is, where shadows are,
Whose lorn estate my verse may never tell.
I walked among them and I knew them well:
Men I had slandered on life's... (Read full poem)
22. Listen! - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 598 times on American Poems.
Whoever you are as you read this,
Whatever your trouble or grief,
I want you to know and to heed this:
The day draweth near with relief.
No sorrow, no woe is unending,
Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb;
So sure as your cry is... (Read full poem)
23. Birth Day - written by Elise Paschen
From Birthday Poems: A Celebration.
Published in 2002.
Read 1933 times on American Poems.
For Alexandra, born May 17, 1999
Armored in red, her voice commands
every corner. Bells gong on squares,
in steeples, answering the prayers.
Bright tulips crown the boulevards.
Pulled from the womb she imitates
that mythic kick from some god's... (Read full poem)
24. Pantoum Of The Great Depression - written by Donald Justice
Read 14910 times on American Poems.
Our lives avoided tragedy
Simply by going on and on,
Without end and with little apparent meaning.
Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes.
Simply by going on and on
We managed. No need for the heroic.
Oh, there were storms and small... (Read full poem)
25. Give All To Love - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 9792 times on American Poems.
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,
Plans, credit, and the muse;
Nothing refuse.
'Tis a brave master,
Let it have scope,
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope;
High and more high,
It dives into noon,
With wing... (Read full poem)
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