Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Langston Hughes

"Let America be America Again": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609



e.e. cummings

"maggie and milly and molly and may": http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15406


"tumbling hair": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/351

"who knows if the moon's": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/361

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 17: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/017.html



Carl Sandburg

"Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15265



Alice Walker

"Expect Nothing": http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker5.html



Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for death”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395

“Fame is a fickle food” : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15396

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15392

“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19039

Maya Angelou

"Alone" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15624

"The Rock Cries Out to Us Today" (Inaugural Poem) : http://poetry.eserver.org/angelou.html