Comel

  O Captain! My Captain!  by  Walt Whitman      Meratapi pembunuhan Abraham Lincoln, puisi Walt Whitman diterbitkan tak lama setelah kematian Lincoln pada tahun 1865. Puisi ini pertama kali diperkenalkan kepada siswa sekolah menengah, dan dikutip dalam adegan yang tak terlupakan dari film Dead Poets Society (1989). O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;  The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;  The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,  While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:      But O heart! heart! heart!       O the bleeding drops of red,          Where on the deck my Captain lies,            Fallen cold and dead.  O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;  Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you th...

  The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by   Edna St. Vincent Millay The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver  memenangkan Pulitzer Prize for Poetry pada tahun 1923   bersama dengan   Eight Sonnets  d an  A Few Figs from Thistles . "SON," said my mother,   When I was knee-high, "You've need of clothes to cover you,   And not a rag have I. "There's nothing in the house   To make a boy breeches, Nor shears to cut a cloth with   Nor thread to take stitches. "There's nothing in the house   But a loaf-end of rye, And a harp with a woman's head   Nobody will buy,"   And she began to cry. That was in the early fall.   When came the late fall, "Son," she said, "the sight of you   Makes your mother's blood crawl,– "Little skinny shoulder-blades   Sticking through your clothes! And where you'll get a jacket from   God above knows. "It's lucky for me, lad,   Your daddy's in the ground, And can't see the way I let ...