Start with a feeling

All Poems

01 In Stillness

"The night is beautiful,"

Langston Hughes

02 The Marvelous

"I ask you this:"

Langston Hughes

03 What Remains

"Dusk dark"

James Mercer Langston Hughes

04 Bright Mornings

"Way down South in Dixie"

Langston Hughes

05 The Distance

"I’ve known rivers:"

Langston Hughes

06 Against the Dying

"I’ve known rivers:"

Langston Hughes

07 In Stillness

"WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,"

Robert Laurence Binyon

08 The Marvelous

"THE FOURTH OF AUGUST"

Laurence Binyon

09 What Remains

"VERDUN"

Robert Laurence Binyon

10 Bright Mornings

"WHAT alters you, familiar lawn and tower,"

Laurence Binyon

11 The Distance

"IN a vision of the night I saw them,"

Robert Laurence Binyon

12 Against the Dying

"Where is the land that fathered, nourished, poured"

Laurence Binyon

13 In Stillness

"BELGIUM"

Robert Laurence Binyon

14 The Marvelous

"Abou Ben Adhem."

Leigh Hunt

15 What Remains

"Cupid Drowned."

Leigh Hunt

16 Bright Mornings

"The Glove and the Lions."

Leigh Hunt

17 The Distance

"Father William."

Lewis Carroll

18 Against the Dying

"Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,"

Lewis Carroll

19 In Stillness

"I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important"

Marianne Moore

20 The Marvelous

"DOVER BEACH."

Matthew Arnold

21 What Remains

"In former times, such as had store of coin,"

Michael Drayton

22 Bright Mornings

"6. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog."

Oliver Goldsmith

23 The Distance

"However, the obscene Propoetides dared to deny"

Ovid

24 Against the Dying

"WE WEAR THE MASK."

Paul Laurence Dunbar