PoetryAedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West,… By W. B. Yeats
PoetryDeparture My true love from her pillow rose And wandered down the summer lane. She left… By Hermann Hagedorn
PoetryLove and Kindness A voice of pity strove to bless In accents bountifully kind, But still my grief… By Annie Matheson
PoetryA Farewell GOOD-BY!—no, do not grieve that it is over, The perfect hour; That the winged joy,… By Harriet Monroe
PoetryAt a Window Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give… By Carl Sandburg
PoetrySessions of Sweet Silent Thought When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,… By William Shakespeare
PoetryThe Wanderer The ships are lying in the bay, The gulls are swinging round their spars; My… By Zoë Akins
PoetryBereavement Nay, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead; He lives again in Heaven’s unclouded… By John Godfrey Saxe
PoetryThe Peace Autumn Written for the Essex County Agricultural Festival, 1865. Thanks God for rest, where none molest,… By John Greenleaf Whittier
PoetryEdged Tools Well, Helen, quite two years have flown Since that enchanted, dreamy night, When you and… By Edmund Clarence Stedman