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网页Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more. You can even find poems by occasion, theme, and form.
If— by Rudyard Kipling - Poems | Academy of American Poets
网页If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster.
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网页New York, NY (September 9, 2024)—The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is pleased to present its fourth cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. New York, NY (August 29, 2024)—The Academy of American Poets announced today that J. Drew Lanham, poet and MacArthur Fellow, and Dr. T.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poems - Academy of …
网页Ozymandias - I met a traveller from an antique land. 49 Go thou to Rome,—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green …
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Poems | Academy of American Poets
网页And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore!
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网页Poets - Search more than 2,500 biographies of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth, and contemporary poets, including U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and other award-winning poets. You can even find poets by state and schools & movements.
The Star-Spangled Banner - Academy of American Poets
网页Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream; ’Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave. O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion. A home and a country should ...
Invictus by William Ernest Henley - Academy of American Poets
网页William Ernest Henley, born August 23, 1849, was an influential British poet, perhaps best known for his poem “Invictus” (1875). He is the author of A Song of Speed (D. Nutt, 1903), Hawthorn & Lavender with Other Verses (D. Nutt, 1901), and For England’s Sake: Verses and Songs in Time of War (D. Nutt, 1900), among others.He died in Woking, England, on …
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Academy of American Poets
网页Ulysses. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809 –. 1892. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole. Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Sonnet - Academy of American Poets
网页The sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song.”.