Category: Poems in History

a young dog’s howl in the wind by Ian MacMenamin

waves
american trains
running through

Yin & Yang by Jennifer-Crystal Johnson We’re a myriad of thoughts In a kaleidoscope of dreams And everything seems real

A Letter along the Way by Xiwen Mai Dearest, tell me where the cicadas have gone. Didn’t summer only exist

In Ohio by Grace Curtis One either believes in God or one probably really is going to hell and Ohioans

Consider This by Henry L. Mortimer Jr. Some animal, some low beast has done me a favor: it tipped over

A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred

The Honey Room by Donal Mahoney Brother Al, in his hood, is out in his field making love

Where-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 Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin;

The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One

Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer “Dulce et decorum est” The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it

Tavern 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 A STRANGER came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom

His Dream by W. B. Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a steering oar, And

Sonnet VI by William Shakespeare Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d: