By: Archibald MacLeish

LIFE in the Perpendicular Decanter

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

“We said good-bye to an entire epoch”

By: William Butler Yeats

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

By: Stephanie Burt

“Love Poem with Comic Books on Saturdays”

By: Stephanie Burt

“Hymn to Youth”

By: Charles M. Doughty

“Cliff-brow of perfide Albion! so alight.”

By: Stephanie Burt

“Boeing 757s, Airbus 320s, an Embraer 190”

By: Stephanie Burt

“Miami”

By: Thomas Thornely

Thy last dread secret, Nature! keep…

By: Archibald MacLeish

Let them be silent in their particles.

By: Thomas Hardy

“Darwin’s theories were a snare”

By: Vachel Lindsay

Lord, give us Darwin’s eyes!

By: George Sterling

So dreamt thy sons on worlds destroyed…

By: H.L. Mencken

No joy, no whirling numbness of the brain…

By: William E. Henley

“Handle her valves, / Her essentials, her secrets…”