Poetry: Perseverance
Again Later
America
Apollo
Approach of Winter
A Psalm Of Life
Ariel
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
A Wicker Basket
Break of Day
Casey at the Bat
Columbus
dear white america
Death Be Not Proud
Declaration
Digging
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dreams
Dreams
Drum Dream Girl
"Faith" is a fine invention
For A Poet
For You O Democracy
Frederick Douglass
Freedom Summer
From Blossoms
From The Dark Tower
God’s Grandeur
Good Bones
Good Man
Having It Out with Melancholy
"Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
Hurt Locker
I Am the People, the Mob
I Ask My Mother to Sing
Identity
If—
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
If I should die
If We Must Die
I look at the world
Immigrants in Our Own Land
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
In Memoriam
In This Place (An American Lyric)
Introduction to Poetry
Invictus
I Sit and Sew
I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines
Jabberwocky
Kindness
This thematic Collection highlights poems centered on the experiences of perseverance and determination. These titles examine the human drive to overcome personal and social obstacles, such as racism. Representing hundreds of years of literary history, the Collection includes works by authors such as John Donne, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, and Kwame Alexander.
“Do not go gentle into that good night” is an iconic poem by 20th-century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who occupied a special place in the public imagination for his magnetic readings and the revival of Romantic themes in his poetry. This poem, which appeared in his 1952 collection In Country Sleep, remains a favorite in anthologies and popular culture for its universal content and unforgettable dual refrain. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is... Read Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Summary
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH explores the cosmic implications of the death of a college friend (his sister’s fiancé), poet Arthur Henry Hallam, who died quite unexpectedly in 1833 at the age of 22 most likely from a cerebral hemorrhage. The poem is among the most ambitiously conceived philosophical poems in the English language and a monument to the dynamics of how Christians themselves grapple with the thorny question of mortality. The work stands... Read In Memoriam Summary