American poetry -- 20th century
Transcriber’s Note: Poems are ordered by publication year (goal is the earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically intrayear (ignoring “A”, “An”, and “The”). Poems appear as printed in source unless changes are given in the notes; however, to avoid much...
Transcriber’s Note: Poems are ordered by publication year (goal is the earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically intrayear (ignoring “A”, “An”, and “Th...
2. Part 2Let us be right, though all the world may follow The broken fabric of some failing dream. As sounds upon our ears its outcry hollow, And men lose all for some deceiving scheme,...
3. Part 3He has made a hundred harbors. He has sailed the seven seas. He has trod the Arctic ice fields. He has felt the tropic breeze. He has dwelt in peaceful cities. He has taken shad...
4. Part 4The builder of the future Sits not upon a throne. He toils among the shadows, His struggles oft unknown. He is the one who kindles And keeps the fires of truth, The teacher who...
5. Part 5The flowers are the thoughts of God. They bloom in sun and shadow, By traveled path, or virgin sod, In every lovely meadow; In dooryards where the children play, And hours are s...
6. Part 6She asks no more than is her due, for Fate is always square. No tradesman yet in all the world has ever been more fair. Good business methods, that is all. There is no other way...
7. Part 7I heard a man in Paradise Say this to God: “Let’s advertise! You’ve got a proposition here On which you’d make a billion clear If I could manage things my way. My plan is this:...
8. Part 8The Magic of the Screen. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Photoplay Magazine_. Vol. 21 No. 2. Chicago: Photoplay Publishing Co., Jan 1922. p. 62. Note: Dropped initial in fir...
9. Part 9accountability ancestors attitude behavior character community consolation duty electricity entertainment evolution faith fashion fellowship fortitude God grace gratitude heart...