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Summer Poetry

And an oily smoke that rolls through the trees/ into the night of the last American summer . . . —Major Jackson Read more verse honoring the seasons. See a glossary of poetry terms. Read…

Amy Lowell: Crepuscule du Matin

Crepuscule du MatinAll night I wrestled with a memory Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought. The crumbled wreck of years behind has wrought Its disillusion; now I only cry For…

Walt Whitman: Tears

TearsTears! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate, Moist tears from…

Poems: A Poison Tree

by WilliamBlakeInfant SorrowA Little Boy LostA Poison Tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow…

Christina Rossetti: The World

The WorldSonnetBy day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair: But all night as the moon so changeth she; Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy And subtle serpents gliding in her hair. By day…

Benjamin De Casseres: Moth-Terror

Moth-TerrorBenjamin De CasseresI have killed the moth flying around my night-light; wingless and dead it lies upon the floor. (O who will kill the great Time-Moth that eats holes in my soul…

Berkman & Goldman: A Tribute

Epigraph and ForewordA Tribute Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Are in prison, Although the night is tremblingly beautiful And the sound of water climbs down the rocks And the breath of…

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act I

Act IScene IElsinore. A platform before the castleFrancisco at his post. Enter to him BernardoBernardoWho's there?FranciscoNay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.BernardoLong live the…