Welcome to the best American poems on the Internet! I have searched for the most heart-warming, meaningful American poetry on the Net and have presented it here. For those of you who appreciate a good American poem, enjoy! If you have time to kill, why not read them all? :)
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American Poems
A Book
by Emily Dickinson. 1830–1886
THERE is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
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