Ambulances (Philip Larkin Poem)
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
Poems about absorb (21 Poems)
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
crematorium-return (Rg Gregory Poem)
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
Snow (Louise Gluck Poem)
Late December: my father and I are going to New York, to the circus. He holds me on his shoulders ...
A Chartreuse Forest (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A bright, glowing, chartreuse forest, the young leaves radiating color too bright to absorb, as they would in summer the ...
Aquarium Ambassadors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Before we went in, before the start of the show The harbor seals made me laugh that innocent, genuine laugh ...
Law School (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Discipline Time management Confidence - Shutting out doubt Focus, for once focus Eyes on the prize New world, New place, ...
Queen Matilda (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
The Day’s Ration (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
I thought that nature was enough (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame ...
The Brain — is wider than the Sky — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- For -- put them side by side -- The one the ...
To the Nightingale (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their window they with downward eye ...
Duty Surviving Self-Love (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at ...
The Only Day In Existence (Billy Collins Poem)
The early sun is so pale and shadowy, I could be looking up at a ghost in the shape of ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Pain (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
For the Record (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The clouds and the stars didn't wage this war the brooks gave no information if the mountain spewed stones of ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...