The Hyacinth (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HERE in this wrecked storm-wasted garden-closeThe grave of infinite generations fledOf flowers that now lay lustreless and dead,As the gray ...
Poems about classical (21 Poems)
To A Modern Poet (Ndre Mjeda Poems)
Your road is good:The Parcae are the ugliest facesOf classical myths. You did not write of them,But of stone slabs ...
Lives (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
I.O the enormous avenues of the Holy Land, the temple terraces! What has become of the Brahman who explained the ...
Wisdom’s Haunts (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Way out in the woods there are brothers who readBy the light of a candle, in Greek, And in far ...
Those Flapjacks Of Brown’s (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)
OH light as the foam on the Plover, That mottles that magical stream;Oh light as the vows of a ...
Enigma II. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
WHAT bishop of Rochester rather would die,Than with Henry 's supremacy basely comply?What martyr of Antioch yields up his breath,By ...
The Way To Make Friends (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
THE way to make friends is as easyAs breathing the fresh morning air;It isn't an art to be studiedAlone by ...
At The Sheep-Dog Trials (David Campbell Poems)
What ancestors uniteHere in this red and whiteKelpie to defineHis symmetry of line,As crouched in burning dustHe halts both Time ...
dim inkling (Friedrich von Schlegel Poems)
Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which ...
In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me (Elizabeth Jennings Poem)
At this particular time I have no one Particular person to grieve for, though there must Be many, many unknown ...
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I have taken advantage of the publication of a Second Edition of my translation of the Poems of Goethe (originally ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
Fuck Me (Maggie Estep Poem)
FUCK ME I'm all screwed up so FUCK ME. FUCK ME and take out the garbage feed the cat and ...
Still hear the waves (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was a brave day under an endlessly clear sky that extended forever from our valley to the unfathomably distant ...
Here I Am … (Charles Bukowski Poem)
drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end of my 2nd bottle of wine, I have typed from a dozen ...
Friends Within The Darkness (Charles Bukowski Poems)
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I ...
AN EVENING WITH JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
Cartographies of Silence (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
Child (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo ...
Insomniac (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The night is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, ...
The Ghost of Miltiades (Thomas Moore Poems)
The Ghost of Miltiades came at night, And he stood by the bed of the Benthamite, And he said, in ...