St. Peter and the Angel (Denise Levertov Poem)
Delivered out of raw continual pain, smell of darkness, groans of those others to whom he was chained-- unchained, and ...
Poems about ecstatic (31 Poems)
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, ...
Moon In Virgo (James Lee Jobe Poem)
You are not beaten. The simple music rises up, children's voices in the air, sound floating out across the land ...
Next Day (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe Poem)
Howe's Final version Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the ...
Shelley’s Skylark (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March) (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust That moved a poet to prophecies - A pinch of ...
The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. ...
The Owl (Ted Hughes Poem)
I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children's eyes. Through your ...
gentlemen lift the sea (Rg Gregory Poem)
on a deformed request in a train lavatory gentlemen lift the sea be all of you the modern muscular mountains ...
THE GARLANDS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
KLOPSTOCK would lead us away from Pindus; no longer for laurel May we be eager--the homely acorn alone must content ...
The Garden (Louise Gluck Poem)
The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, The ecstatic reds of the roses, So ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The Kiss Returned (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
AS WILLIAM walking with his wife was seen, A man of rank admired her lovely mien. Who gave you such ...
Of Politics & Art (Norman Dubie Poem)
for Allen Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula The winter storm Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse. Mrs. ...
Snow (John Davidson Poem)
'Who affirms that crystals are alive?' I affirm it, let who will deny: Crystals are engendered, wax and thrive, Wane ...
The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
What would I give to see his face? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What would I give to see his face? I'd give -- I'd give my life -- of course -- But ...
To disappear enhances — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To disappear enhances -- The Man that runs away Is tinctured for an instant With Immortality But yesterday a Vagrant ...
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind -- The Mind is a single State -- The Heart and the ...
For each ecstatic instant (Emily Dickinson Poem)
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ration To the ecstasy. For each beloved ...
Between the form of Life and Life (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Between the form of Life and Life The difference is as big As Liquor at the Lip between And Liquor ...
Fountainhead (Michael Burch Poem)
I did not delight in love so much as in a kiss like linnets' wings, the flutterings of a pulse ...
Charon 2004 (Michael Burch Poem)
I, too, have stood paralyzed at the helm watching onrushing, inevitable disaster. I too have felt sweat (or ecstatic tears) ...
Town and Country (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
Blue Evening (Rupert Brooke Poem)
My restless blood now lies a-quiver, Knowing that always, exquisitely, This April twilight on the river Stirs anguish in the ...
Misconceptions (Robert Browning Poem)
This is a spray the Bird clung to, Making it blossom with pleasure, Ere the high tree-top she sprung to, ...
467. Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry (Robert Burns Poem)
HERE, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives, In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined, Accept the gift; though humble he ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema (Conrad Aiken Poem)
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
From ‘The Soul’s Travelling’ (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
God, God! With a child's voice I cry, Weak, sad, confidingly- God, God! Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always up ...
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...