The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about barrel (31 Poems)
Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Woodchucks (Maxine Kumin Poem)
Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, ...
Cassandra (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Hooked in the stones of the wall, The storm-wrack ...
What Being in Rank-Old Nature (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been That h?re p?rsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?- ...
The House Of Hospitalities (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Here we broached the Christmas barrel, Pushed up the charred log-ends; Here we sang the Christmas carol, And called in ...
WONT AND DONE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave! I then was the servant, but now am the ...
THE INSTRUCTORS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel, When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave, Oh, what noble ...
The Little Orphan (Edgar Albert Guest Poem)
The crowded street his playground is, a patch of blue his sky; A puddle in a vacant lot his sea ...
Please Master (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Please master can I touch your cheeck please master can I kneel at your feet please master can I loosen ...
Shopping While Hungry (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Yup, I did it again; went shopping while hungry I even stood at the deli counter, contemplating whether or not ...
Smoked Syrup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Buckets and buckets of sap, culled from willing maples pouring into the vat the cauldron atop the old, crumbling outdoor ...
Fiddle-Dee-Dee (Eugene Field Poem)
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
The Star-Splitter (Robert Frost Poem)
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
The Housekeeper (Robert Frost Poem)
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
After Apple-Picking (Robert Frost Poem)
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside ...
Sam’s Christmas Pudding (Marriott Edgar Poems)
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Vergissmeinnicht (Keith Douglas Poem)
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain (Jim Carroll Poem)
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
67. Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock (Robert Burns Poem)
O GOWDIE, terror o' the whigs, Dread o' blackcoats and rev'rend wigs! Sour Bigotry, on her last legs, Girns an' ...
Kaspar Is Dead (Jean Hans Arp Poem)
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The warm sun dreams in the dust, the warm sun falls On bright red roofs and walls; The trees in ...
The Little Vagabond (William Blake Poems)
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm: Besides I can ...
Rosemary (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
For the sake of some things That be now no more I will strew rushes On my chamber-floor, I will ...
Nyctivoe (extract) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
Wisteria (Philip Levine Poems)
The first purple wisteria I recall from boyhood hung on a wire outside the windows of the breakfast room next ...