Famous Poets

11 poems by

John Kendrick Bangs

1862 - 1922

"He is indeed in friendless plight who hath no creditor
and does not know the joyous task of paying off the score!"

26 poems by

Caleb Davis Bradlee

1831 - 1897

"Lord, when we shall question in our heart,
Whether thou wilt stay with us, or depart"

20 poems by

Berton Braley

1882 - 1966

"Whistle, old fellow; you go on and whistle;
What do we care if you sharp or you flat?"

7 poems by

Clara McAlister Brooks

1882 - 1980

"And we shall stand with the judgment-train.
Oh! what shall we wish that day?"

11 poems by

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806 - 1861

"think we are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's."

21 poems by

David V. Bush

1882 - 1959

"If you've tried and if you've failed,
Keep plodding."

11 poems by

Alice Cary

1820 - 1871

"Stay yet a little longer in the sky,
O golden color of the evening sun!"

7 poems by

Phoebe Cary

1824 - 1871

"O years, gone down into the past;
What pleasant memories come to me."

26 poems by

Daniel C. Colesworthy

1810 - 1893

"What is existence, but to give
Our influence to a righteous cause?"

25 poems by

Lillian E. Curtis

mid 1800's, death unknown

"Friendship! how boundless and expansive is the term,
Leading thro' labyrinths - ah! 'tis a priceless germ."

14 poems by

Emily Dickinson

1831 - 1905

"Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door."

16 poems by

Mary Mapes Dodge

1830 - 1886

"If you've any task to do,
Let me whisper, friend, to you, Do it."

14 poems by

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

"Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working
when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."

14 poems by

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 - 1882

"That book is good
Which puts me in a working mood."

12 poems by

Eugene Field

1850 - 1895

"There are no days like the good old days, -
The days when we were youthful!"

11 poems by

Ardeen Foster

"I mourn you as you die!
Good-bye, Old Year, good-bye!"

9 poems by

Robert Frost

1874 - 1963

"Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold."

27 poems by

Arthur Franklin Fuller

1880 - 1953

Dear little hand and wise little heart,
Words cannot measure the sweet you impart"

20 poems by

Strickland Gillilan

1869 - 1954

"Most every day brings some grave situation,
Not to be feared, but faced."

37 poems by

Edgar A. Guest

1881 - 1959

"The pathway of the living is our ever-present care.
Let us do our best to smooth it and to make it bright and fair."

27 poems by

John Imrie

1846 - 1902

"Life is all too short for strife,
Peace and love are golden"

5 poems by

Rudyard Kipling

1865 - 1936

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

9 poems by

Lucy Larcom

1824 - 1893

"Life offers no joy like a friend:
Fulfillment and prophecy blend"

7 poems by

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882

"How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat"

11 poems by

Amy Lowell

1874 - 1925

"I ask but one thing of you, only one.
That always you will be my dream of you"

20 poems by

Douglas Malloch

1877 - 1938

"Some folks run to sunsets, some folks run to noon.
Some folks like the evenin' best, with its stars an' moon."

13 poems by

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 - 1849

"The happiest day - the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known"

14 poems by

Althea Randolph

1800s - death unknown

"The trees are very vain, I think! I feel this must be true.
Because they like to change their gowns as much as people do!"

15 poems by

Christina Rossetti

1830 - 1894

"We know not when, we know not where,
We know not what that world will be"

23 poems by

Mary C. Ryan

"Oh! give me back my childhood years,
The friends that are no more"

13 poems by

Eloise A. Skimings

1836 - 1921

"Be a friend good and true, to those you love;
O'er their path blossoms strew, to bloom above"

12 poems by

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see"

20 poems by

Wilhelmina Stitch

1888 - 1936

"Mind! What are you minting? Thoughts of purest gold
To buy a share of happiness when we are growing old."

22 poems by

Patience Strong

1907 - 1990

"Welcome Christmas once again! Come blizzard, snow or rime
It cannot dim the joy that fills our hearts at this glad time."

15 poems by

Ellwood Haines Stokes

1815 - 1897

"What a joyful place our heaven must be.
Where the captive dwells forever free."

6 poems by

James Henry Thomas

"We are very often treated with contempt and scorn;
But if right, we're not defeated, though much must be borne."

18 poems by

J. J. Thorne

1871 - unknown

"Knowledge is power, conscience is truth,
It was given us the way to live by"

9 poems by

Sara Teasdale

1884-1933

"Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold."

21 poems by

William Arthur Ward

1921 - 1994

"A dash of encouragement is more helpful than
a dipper of pessimism."

23 poems by

Nixon Waterman

1859 - 1944

"With every tick of the clock, my dear,
The days go singing by."

8 poems by

Kate Louise Wheeler

late 1800s

"Do not dream away life’s morning,
Rise to bless as does the sun"

23 poems by

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1850 -1919

"We will be what we could be. Do not say,
'It might have been, had not or that, or this'"

25 poems by

Henry VanDyke

1852 - 1933

"Love is not getting,
but giving"