Poems

Gustav Klimt, The Swamp 1900 I beheld many friends,And the friend I held the most,Helplessly sink into the swampI pass...

Edward Steichen, Cheruit Gown (Marion Morehouse, Mrs. e.e. cummings), 1927 You are tired,(I think)Of the always puzzle of living and...

Sarah Bernhardt photographed by Nadar, 1865 How vain and dull this common world must seemTo such a One as thou,...

Atanasio Soldati, La strada, 1932 Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is...

Amy Katherine, Browning Interior I know the place.It is true.Everything we doCorrects the spaceBetween death and meAnd you. Harold Pinter,...

Max Beckman, Still Life with Large Shell, 1939 (detail) Noiselessly through the silent mansion treading,She bears a lamp and guards...

Bian Shoumin, Wild geese, 1751 You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor...

Samia Halaby, Directions, 2018 You fellthrough yourselfwhat was knownthe war flickeredin the evening skyHer hand was warmwhat were her wordsnot...

Jim Henson, Sid the Cookie Monster, Sesame Street, 1966 “Choose your leaderswith wisdom and forethought.To be led by a cowardis...

Dorothy Annan, Girl with an Apple, 1943 There was an apple tree in the yard --this would have beenforty years...