Behind a Wall by AMY LOWELL I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, poppied sunshine; bright, Flaming with lilies out of whose cups dart Shining things With powdered wings. Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close The ends of dreaming paths; a … Read more
Dillard Sissman by EDGAR LEE MASTERS The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie Beating the grass into long waves. My kite is above the wind, Though now and then it wobbles, Like a man shaking his shoulders; And … Read more
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight by ROBERT FROST When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb and fingers; No lasting effect of it lingers. There was one time and only the one When dust really took in the sun; And from … Read more
Evening Waterfall
By CARL SANDBURG
As Imperceptibly as Grief
By EMILY DICKINSON
HOW OFT IN SCHOOLBOY-DAYS, FROM THE SCHOOL’S SWAY
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
from Sonnets, Second Series
Summer Is Ended
By CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
We should not mind so small a flower
By EMILY DICKINSON
MY FATHER PAINTS THE SUMMER
By RICHARD WILBUR (American. 1921 – )
