Jazz Chick (Bob Kaufman Poem)
Music from her breast, vibrating Soundseared into burnished velvet. Silent hips deceiving fools. Rivulets of trickling ecstacy From the alabaster ...
Poems about alabaster (21 Poems)
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings (Geoffrey Hill Poem)
For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution ...
The Swimmer (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
Alabaster Air (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I can remember a night a hushed quiet night when I sat and melted in the alabaster air bleed from ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
Reliance (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to ...
Praise it — ’tis dead — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Praise it -- 'tis dead -- It cannot glow -- Warm this inclement Ear With the encomium it earned Since ...
It sifts from Leaden Sieves (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It sifts from Leaden Sieves -- It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the ...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -- Untouched my Morning And untouched by Noon -- Sleep the meek members of the ...
Footsteps (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
Fountainhead (Michael Burch Poem)
I did not delight in love so much as in a kiss like linnets' wings, the flutterings of a pulse ...
Galatea Encore (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter, immobile, by ...
In The Kalahari Desert (Craig Raine Poems)
The sun rose like a tarnished looking-glass to catch the sun and flash His hot message at the missionaries below-- ...
E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre (Ezra Pound Poems)
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
Alabaster (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
LIKE this alabaster box whose art Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, Carven with delicate dreams and wrought ...
RUN AND WON (Vlanes Poems)
When you entered the workshop, I was already here. How many statues, and torsos, and heads ! Like remains of ...
The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun (Andrew Marvell Poems)
The wanton Troopers riding by Have shot my Faun and it will dye. Ungentle men! They cannot thrive To kill ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
St Michael’s Chapel (Emma Lazarus Poems)
When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain Roars round about me as I walk the street, The myriad ...