Harlem Shadows By Claude McKay I hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass To bend and barter at desire’s call. Ah, little…
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The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red
The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red By Christina Georgina Rossetti The rose that blushes rosy red, She must hang her head; The lily that blows spotless white, She may stand upright. Summary of The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red Popularity…
Fare Thee Well
Fare Thee Well By Lord Byron Alas! they had been friends in youth: But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we…
won’t you celebrate with me
won’t you celebrate with me By Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in Babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except…
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword By Mariska Taylor-Darko We all know that the pen is mightier than the sword, But some days ago the sword thought it was mightier than the pen They lie bad! The pen is…
from The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
from The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal By Lord Alfred Tennyson Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font. The firefly wakens;…
Cross
Cross By Langston Hughes My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she…
Eagle Poem
Eagle Poem By Joy Harjo To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And know there is more That you can’t see, can’t hear; Can’t know…
Exile
Exile By Julia Alvarez The night we fled the country, Papi, you told me we were going to the beach, hurried me to get dressed along with the others, while posted at a window, you looked out at a curfew-darkened…
The Good-Morrow
The Good-Morrow By John Donne I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? ’Twas so;…
Sonnet 7: How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
Sonnet 7: How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth By John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late…
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent By John Milton When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged…
October
October By Louise Glück Is it winter again, is it cold again, didn’t Frank just slip on the ice, didn’t he heal, weren’t the spring seeds planted didn’t the night end, didn’t the melting ice flood the narrow gutters wasn’t…
On The Sea
On The Sea By John Keats It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often ‘tis in such gentle temper…
Apologia
Apologia By Oscar Wilde Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day? Is…
Mutability
Mutability By Percy Bysshe Shelley I. We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:— II. Or…
Kindness
Kindness By Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully…
The Rainbow Bridge
The Rainbow Bridge By Paul C. Dahm Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and…
The Last Ride Together
The Last Ride Together By Robert Browning I SAID—Then, dearest, since ‘tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love avails, Since all, my life seem’d meant for, fails, Since this was written and…
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General By Johnathan Swift His Grace! impossible! what dead! Of old age too, and in his bed! And could that mighty warrior fall? And so inglorious, after all! Well, since…