Poetry

Rumi

The Song of the Reed

Souls

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

They Came Down From the High and Low Places

Saintly Places

Mohja Kahf

My Babysitter Wears a Face Veil

My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Bathroom Sink at Sears

 

 

 

 

Yunus Emre

From Life and Death #51

 

 

Suheir Hammad

What I Will

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Once by the Pacific

 

 

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Dreams

 

 

Emily Dickinson

It’s All I Have to Bring Today

 

 

 

Pablo Neruda

Bird

 

 

 

Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

 

 

Mahmoud Darwish

Earth Presses Against Us

 

William Wordsworth

Daffodils

 

 

 

 

Lord Byron

Fare Thee Well

 

 

 

Ezra Pound

Salutation

 

 

 

 

Lena Winfrey Seder

Society’s Disease

Desert Rose

 

 

 

 

 

Billy Collins

The Dead

 

 

 

 

 

Abdel Rahman Jaami

Silsilat Al Dhahab

 

 

 

 

 

Ted Kooser

Abandoned Farmhouse

 

 

Donald Justice

Psalm and Lament

 

 

 

William Stafford

At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Bishop

One Art

 

Nancy Byrd Turner

Death is a Door

 

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Kizer

Gulf War

 

 

 

 

 

Ibn Arabi

Gentle Now, Doves

Lords of Love

 

 

 

 

 

Michael A. Sells

Monroe Doctrine

 

 

 

 

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Mother to Son

 

 

 

 

 

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bean Eaters

 

 

Henry David Thoreau

I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings

 

 

 

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Passer Mortuus Est

 

 

 

Christian Wiman

What I Know

 

 

A. R. Ammons

Small Song

Winter Scene

 

 

 

 

Mark Strand

Keeping Things Whole

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass

 

 

Sara Teasdale

In a Burying Ground

 

 

 

Longfellow

The Day is Done

 

 

Sherman Alexie

The Powwow at the End of the World

 

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

An Obstacle

 

 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life’s Scar

 

 

Carl Sandburg

Grass

 

 

Charles Simic

Fear

 

 

Edgar Guest

It Couldn’t Be Done

 

 

Frank Steele

Parents

 

 

 

Hart Crane

Voyages

 

 

 

e. e. cummings

Next to of Course God America

Jacqueline Osherow

Ghazal: Comet

Howard Nemerov

Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry

Linda Pastan

November

Angelo de Ponciano

Empties Coming Back

Elinor Wylie

Prophecy

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Bewick Finzer

Carol Muske Dukes

The House of Bush

Joyce Kilmer

Trees

Bill Coyle

The God of This World to His Prophet

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sympathy

Czeslaw Milosz

Dedication

Alan Seeger

I Have a Rendezvous With Death

Amelia Blandford Edwards

Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother