The Sugar Plum Tree By Eugene Field Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? ‘Tis a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore of the Lollypop sea In the garden of Shut-Eye Town; The fruit that it…
Category: Poem Analysis
As Imperceptibly as Grief
As Imperceptibly as Grief By Emily Dickinson As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away— Too imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy— A Quietness distilled As Twilight long begun, Or Nature spending with herself Sequestered Afternoon— The Dusk drew…
The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky
The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky By Emily Dickinson The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and you—beside— The Brain is deeper than the sea— For—hold them—Blue to…
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree By Emily Dickinson A Drop fell on the Apple Tree – Another – on the Roof – A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves – And made the Gables laugh – A few…
The Man With The Hoe
The Man With The Hoe By Edwin Markham Written after seeing Millet’s World-Famous Painting God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him. —Genesis. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his…
A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London
A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London By Dylan Thomas Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still…
A Far Cry from Africa
A Far Cry from Africa By Derek Walcott A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. Corpses are scattered through a paradise. Only the worm, colonel of carrion,…
After the Winter
After the Winter By Claude McKay Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We’ll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle…
Live Your Life
Live Your Life By Chief Tecumseh So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life,…
Checking Out Me History
Checking Out Me History By John Agard Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to my own identity Dem tell me bout 1066 and all…
Hymn
Hymn By Caedmon Translated by Elaine Treharne Now we ought to praise the Guardian of the heavenly kingdom, The might of the Creator and his conception, The work of the glorious Father, as he of each of the wonders, Eternal…
Ithaka
Ithaka By C. P. Cavafy Translated by Edmund Keeley As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things…
Blowin’ in the Wind
Blowin’ in the Wind By Bob Dylan How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times…
Horse Whisperer
Horse Whisperer By Andrew Forster They shouted for me when their horses snorted, when restless hooves traced circles in the earth and shimmering muscles refused the plough. My secret was a spongy tissue, pulled bloody from the mouth of a…
Sonnet 86
Sonnet 86 By William Shakespeare Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they…
To a Waterfowl
To a Waterfowl By William Cullen Bryant Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler’s eye Might mark thy distant…
The Widows Lament in Springtime
The Widows Lament in Springtime By William Carlos Williams Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year. Thirty-five years I…
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Red Wheelbarrow By William Carlos Williams a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens Summary of The Red Wheelbarrow Popularity of “The Red Wheelbarrow”: Written by William Carlos Williams, an American modernist icon as well…
Where I’m From
Where I’m From By George Ella Lyon I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush, the Dutch elm whose…
The Dalliance of The Eagles
The Dalliance of The Eagles By Walt Whitman SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking…