The Poet’s Calendar (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Poems about dispossessed (21 Poems)
Twilight: After Haying (Jane Kenyon Poem)
Yes, long shadows go out from the bales; and yes, the soul must part from the body: what else could ...
Song of Diego Valdez (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
The Prisoners (Robert Hayden Poem)
Steel doors - guillotine gates - of the doorless house closed massively. We were locked in with loss. Guards frisked ...
Range-Finding (Robert Frost Poem)
The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single ...
To let them die peace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There wasn't room for sympathy, the epicentre moved too rapidly for that and even when we knew the anger of ...
Syrinx (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Like the foghorn that's all lung, the wind chime that's all percussion, like the wind itself, that's merely air in ...
Witness (Eavan Boland Poem)
Here is the city- its worn-down mountains, its grass and iron, its smoky coast seen from the high roads on ...
Mother and Poet (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
The Star-Apple Kingdom (Derek Walcott Poems)
There were still shards of an ancient pastoral in those shires of the island where the cattle drank their pools ...
IT RAINED THE DAY THEY BURIED TITO PUENTE (Emanuel Xavier Poems)
It rained the day they buried Tito Puente The eyes of drug dealers following me as I walked through the ...
HUMANITAD (Oscar Wilde Poems)
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
The End of the Day (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The night darkens fast & the shadows darken, Clouds & the rain gather about mine house, Only the wood-dove moans, ...
With a Copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnets on Leaving College (Alan Seeger Poems)
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
The Book of Annandale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Time Stands Still over Govandi Station (John Matthew Poems)
A kite flutters, On a high tension wire - Against a stark blue sky. Beggar and old mother huddle On ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Herman Altman (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak ...
The Survivor (Primo Levi Poems)
Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...