Oatmeal (Galway Kinnell Poem)
I eat oatmeal for breakfast. I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it. I eat ...
Poems about absolutely (31 Poems)
The Old And The New Masters (Randall Jarrell Poem)
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats Or walks or opens the ...
Our Eyes (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
Our eyes are limpid drops of water. In each drop exists a tiny sign of our genius which has given ...
ORIGINAL PREFACE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
Castile (Louise Gluck Poem)
Orange blossoms blowing over Castile children begging for coins I met my love under an orange tree or was it ...
We Rely (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On God's grace whether we are aware or not His grace has already been given an unmerited free gift on ...
Sursum Corda (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Seek not the Spirit, if it hide, Inexorable to thy zeal: Baby, do not whine and chide; Art thou not ...
Buying Stock (Denise Duhamel Poem)
"...The use of condoms offers substantial protection, but does not guarantee total protection and that while there is no evidence ...
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path’d Experience (Michael Drayton Poems)
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide, Her simple followers evidently shows Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, Nor yet wise Reason absolutely ...
The Pig (Roald Dahl Poem)
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Waiting For The Miracle (Leonard Cohen Poem)
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I ...
Madmen (Billy Collins Poem)
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
That One (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
Oh days devoted to the useless burden of putting out of mind the biography of a minor poet of the ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
At The Fishhouses (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in ...
The Box (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, Around about the wondrous days of yore, They came across a ...
1. Song-Handsome Nell (Robert Burns Poems)
O ONCE I lov'd a bonie lass, Ay, and I love her still; And whilst that virtue warms my breast, ...
This (Charles Bukowski Poems)
self-congratulatory nonsense as the famous gather to applaud their seeming greatness you wonder where the real ones are what giant ...
Sense Of Something Coming (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
I am like a flag in the center of open space. I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and ...
Planetarium (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the shape of a monster a ...
Impossible To Tell (Robert Pinsky Poems)
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends ...
Child (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Hard Luck (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I left the course, and by my side There walked a ruined tout -- A hungry creature, evil-eyed, Who poured ...
Pineapples And Pomegranates (Paul Muldoon Poems)
To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple with my first pineapple, its exposed breast setting itself ...
Night-Scented Stock (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
White, white in the milky night The moon danced over a tree. "Wouldn't it be lovely to swim in the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...