In a Twinkling of an Eye (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In a twinkling of an eye, they have grown, become older, more mature, little ladies, not just the girls I ...
Poems about careful (49 Poems)
Jellyfish Toss (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Please, oh please catch it (and not wear it) So were the thoughts rushing through my mind as I played ...
A King (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A king, not of this world being baited, tested, by the emissary, the local ruler, representative of the Emperor Would ...
An Image of Him (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When I saw him, it made me think of him the hat and coat I had seen, the hat I ...
The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
New England Mind (Robert Francis Poem)
My mind matches this understand land. Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift, Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift ...
The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost Poem)
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, ...
Evening in a Sugar Orchard (Robert Frost Poem)
From where I lingered in a lull in march outside the sugar-house one night for choice, I called the fireman ...
The Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Head Against The Walls (Paul Eluard Poem)
There were only a few of them In all the earth Each one thought he was alone They sang, they ...
Aunt Helen (T. S. Eliot Poem)
MISS HELEN SLINGSBY was my maiden aunt, And lived in a small house near a fashionable square Cared for by ...
Hysteria (T. S. Eliot Poem)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth ...
Old Deuteronomy (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Valentine (Carol Ann Duffy Poem)
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown ...
Biography In The First Person (Stephen Dunn Poem)
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
No Notice gave She, but a Change — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Notice gave She, but a Change -- No Message, but a Sigh -- For Whom, the Time did not ...
Surgeons must be very careful (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit -- Life! (Emily ...
Haircut today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
Endurance (Peter Conners Poem)
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
Pictured (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
My work, I'm very careful about it, and I love it. But today I'm discouraged by how slowly it's going. ...
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 ...
Something (Robert Creeley Poem)
I approach with such a careful tremor, always I feel the finally foolish question of how it is, then, supposed ...