by Agha Shahid Ali By dark the world is once again intact， Or so the mirrors， wiped clean， try to reason. . . ——James Merrill This dream o...
by Walt Whitman 1 I sing the body electric， The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them， They will not let me off till I go with them， re...
by Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed - From Tankards scooped in Pearl - Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol！ Inebriate of ...
by Gerard Manley Hopkins I wake and feel the fell of dark， not day. What hours， O what black hours we have spent This night！ what sights you， heart， s...
by Martha Serpas Sometimes it's so hot the thistle bends to the morning dew and the limbs of trees seem so weighted they won't hold up moss an...
by Cornelius Eady Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman， Some type of supernatural creature. My mother would tell you， if she could， About her...
by Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody！ Who are you？ Are you - Nobody - too？ Then there's a pair of us？ Don't tell！ they'd advertise - you know...
by Langston Hughes I， too， sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes， But I laugh， And eat well， An...
by Inger Christensen Translated by Susanna Nied I Up they soar， the planet's butterflies， pigments from the warm body of the earth， cinnabar， ochr...
by Ron McFarland for Robert Lowell Out here， we don't talk about culture， we think we are. We nurtured Ezra Pound who ran from us like hell and ne...