Poems | Academy of American Poets
WEBPoems - 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
WEBIf 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.
Teach This Poem: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
WEBJan 16, 2023 · Teach This Poem: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost - Teach This Poem, though developed with a classroom in mind, can be easily adapted for remote-learning, hybrid-learning models, or in-person classes. Please see our suggestions for how to adapt this lesson for remote or blended learning. We have also noted suggestions …
How to Read a Poem - Academy of American Poets
WEBNov 27, 2007 · All of these are good qualities to notice, and they may lead you to a better understanding of the poem in the end. But sooner or later, you’re going to have to read the poem, word by word. To begin, read the poem aloud. Read it more than once. Listen to your voice, to the sounds the words make.
Haiku - Academy of American Poets
WEBFeatured Poets. The following poets, as well as many others, are known for their work in the haiku form. Yosa Buson: A Japanese poet of the Edo period and born in 1716, Yosa Buson was known, along with Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa, as one of the three classical masters of haiku.. Sadakichi Hartmann: Sadakichi Hartmann, who was born in …
On Friendship by Kahlil Gibran - Poems - Academy of American …
WEBOn Friendship. And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own ...
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe - Poems | Academy of American Poets
WEBI. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wells From the …
And death shall have no dominion - Academy of American Poets
WEBAnd death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And …
Mental Health: Poems for Teens | Academy of American Poets
WEBSep 28, 2017 · Browse poems about anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues, as well as poems about hope, resilience, and survival. more poetry for teens. “ Little Stones at My Window ” by Mario Benedetti Once in a while…. “ Fear ” by Ciaran Carson I fear the vast dimensions of eternity…. “ The Soul has Bandaged moments (360) ” by ...
Acrostic - Academy of American Poets
WEBAcrostic. The acrostic is a form in which names or words are spelled out through the first letter of each line. The intent of the acrostic, a form derived from the abecedarian, is to reveal while attempting to conceal within the poem. Examples of the Acrostic Form. William Blake addresses the despairs of the plague in the poem “ London ...