Category: Poems in History

California City Landscape by Carl Sandburg

California City Landscape by Carl Sandburg On a mountain-side the real estate agents Put up signs marking the city lots

X. I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain

Mending Wall By Robert Frost Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And

William Carlos Williams (1883?1963) To wish Myself Courage On the day when youth is no more upon me I will

Remembered Village My cob webbed mind gave way to us again, me, bathing in a Parisian pool while you glance

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Gunga Din You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you

She Is Overheard Singing Oh, Prue she has a patient man, And Joan a gentle lover, And Agatha’s Arth’ is

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an influential English writer, poet, and essayist. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire,

A VALENTINE by Lewis Carroll And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering