The Collection
Browse by feeling
Poetry meets you where you are. Start with a mood, or explore them all.
Start with a feeling
In Stillness
"I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose"
The Marvelous
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
What Remains
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
Bright Mornings
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
The Distance
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"
Against the Dying
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
All Poems
"We were schooner-rigged and rakish,"
"Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers"
"I hold that when a person dies"
"He lay dead on the cluttered deck and stared at the cold ski..."
"'He's deader 'n nails,' the fo'c's'le said, ''n' gone to his..."
"In the dark womb where I began"
"Your nose is a red jelly, your mouth's a toothless wreck,"
"Troy Town is covered up with weeds,"
""When I'm discharged at Liverpool 'n' draws my bit o' pay,"
"So I have known this life,"
"Out beyond the sunset, could I but find the way,"
"IN FLANDERS FIELDS"
"Τοὐλεύθερον δ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, τίς θέλει πόλει"
"HEnce vain deluding joyes,"
"THis is the Month, and this the happy morn"
"———Baccare frontem"
"When I consider how my light is spent,"
"(For Mrs. Henry Mills Alden)"
"To fling my arms wide"
"I got a job now"
"Beat the drums of tragedy for me."
"Come,"
"I, too, sing America."
"De railroad bridge’s"