The Blind by Sara Teasdale
Published On Thursday, May 13, 2010. Under: 1900s, Teasdale, Sara.
The Blind
by Sara Teasdale
The birds are all a-building,
They say the world's a-flower,
And still I linger lonely
Within a barren bower.
I weave ...
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Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley
Published On 08 May 2011Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley O the Lands of Where-Away! Tell us—tell us—where are they? Through the darkness and ...
Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot
Published On 07 May 2011Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath ...
The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
Published On 03 May 2011The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of ...
Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer
Published On 02 May 2011Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer "Dulce et decorum est" The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war ...
Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Published On 30 Apr 2011Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay I'll keep a little tavern Below the high hill's crest, Wherein all grey-eyed ...
Love and a Question by Robert Frost
Published On 24 Apr 2011Love and a Question by Robert Frost A STRANGER came to the door at eve, And he spoke ...
His Dream by W. B. Yeats
Published On 20 Apr 2011His Dream by W. B. Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a ...
The Past-Present by Walt Whitman
Published On 10 Apr 2011The Past-Present by Walt Whitman I was looking a long while for the history of the past ...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Published On 02 Apr 2011Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale
Published On 30 Mar 2011Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the ...
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What’s Happening at EWR!
Published On 25 Sep 2012Well things are happening so quickly around here, I thought I would take a sometime to tell you about exciting things going on here at EWR. We are making some big changes, and they are happening quickly, so here we go.
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley
Published On 05 Apr 2011To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley TO show ...
A Dream by Matthew Aronold
Published On 05 Mar 2011A Dream by Matthew Aronold Was it a dream? We sail'd, I thought we sail'd, Martin and I, ...
On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley
Published On 17 Jan 2011On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck'd ...
THE LAMB by William Blake
Published On 31 Dec 2010THE LAMB by William Blake Little Lamb, who made thee Dost thou know who made thee, ...
A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
Published On 24 Dec 2010A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through ...
Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott
Published On 12 Dec 2010Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott On Christmas-eve the bells were rung; The damsel donned her ...
A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti
Published On 11 Dec 2010A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as ...
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
Published On 28 Nov 2010Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as ...
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A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti
Published On 20 May 2011A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can ...
The Figure-Head by Herman Melville
Published On 08 Apr 2011The Figure-Head by Herman Melville The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, (Named from the carven pair at prow,) He so smart, ...
Nightingales by Robert Bridges
Published On 05 Apr 2011Nightingales Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the ...
The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson
Published On 03 Apr 2011The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in ...
Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll
Published On 02 Apr 2011Only A Woman's Hair by Lewis Carroll ‘Only a woman’s hair’! Fling it aside! A bubble on Life’s ...
Revolutions by Matthew Arnold
Published On 19 Mar 2011Revolutions by Matthew Arnold Before man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven ...
One Day by Rupert Brooke
Published On 09 Mar 2011One Day by Rupert Brooke Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of ...
Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville
Published On 08 Mar 2011Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville Look, the raft, a signal flying, Thin—a shred; None upon the lashed spars ...
“LUCY” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Published On 26 Feb 2011"LUCY" by Oliver Wendell Holmes "Lucy."—The old familiar name Is now, as always, pleasant, Its liquid melody the same Alike ...
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After Apple-picking by Robert Frost
Published On Thursday, May 13, 2010. Under: 1900s, Frost, Robert.
One of the greatest American Poets. Robert Frost (1874-1963). He won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry.
The Little Ghost by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Published On Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Under: 1900s, Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
THE CAP AND BELLS by W. B. Yeats
Published On Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Under: Moderns, Yeats, W. B..
One of the greatest poets of the 20th Century.
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
Published On Sunday, May 09, 2010. Under: 1800s, Thoreau, Henry David.
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;
Drifting meadow of ...
THE WORLD by Lord Francis Bacon
Published On Saturday, May 08, 2010. Under: 1600s, Bacon, Francis Lord.
THE WORLD
by Lord Francis Bacon of Verulam
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span: In his ...
The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Published On Saturday, May 08, 2010. Under: 1800s, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
The Builders
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Nothing ...
To Myself by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Published On Friday, May 07, 2010. Under: 1800s, Barrett-Browning.
To Myself
Let nothing make thee sad or fretful,
Or too regretful; Be still; What God hath ordered must be right;
Then find ...
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor (1642-1729) Thou sorrow, venom Elfe: Is this thy play, To spin a web out of ...
Fragment by Edwin Arlington Robinson
About Edwin Robinson: Born at Head Tide, Maine, Dec. 22, 1869. Educated at Harvard University. Mr. Robinson is a psychological poet of great subtlety; his poems are usually studies of types and he has given us a remarkable series of portraits. He is recognized as one of the finest and most distinguished poets of our time. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer
PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer What nudity is beautiful as this Obedient monster purring at its toil; These naked iron muscles ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
Published On Sunday, May 02, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Simply, one of the greatest poets of all time. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman
A. E. Housman was born March 26, 1859, and, after a classical education, he was, for ten years, a Higher Division Clerk in H. M. Patent Office. Later in life, he became a teacher.
PRIME by Amy Lowell
Published On Friday, April 30, 2010. Under: 1900s, Lowell, Amy.
PRIME by Amy Lowell
Your voice is like bells over roofs at dawn
When a bird flies
And the sky changes to a ...
HOLY SATYR by HD
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) HOLY SATYR by HD Most holy Satyr, like a goat, with horns and hooves to match thy coat of russet brown, I make leaf-circlets and ...
WINDFLOWER LEAF by Carl Sandburg
Published On Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Under: 1900s, Sandburg, Carl.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
WINDFLOWER LEAF by Carl Sandburg
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
The wind repeats these,
it must ...
THE MOON by William H. Davies
According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw "discovered" him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler—in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies' second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)
Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893 A month before his death he wrote to his mother: "My nerves are in perfect order. I came out again in order to help these boys; directly, by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can." Let his own words be his epitaph:— "Courage was mine, and I had mystery; Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery." ~Siegfried Sassoon
INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley
Published On Saturday, April 24, 2010. Under: 1800s, Henley, William Ernest.
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Columbus by Joaquin Miller
Published On Saturday, April 24, 2010. Under: 1800s, Miller, Joaquin.
Joaquin Miller (1841-1913)
