Mail Call (Randall Jarrell Poem)
The letters always just evade the hand One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird. Surely ...
Poems about evade (21 Poems)
Old Age Gets Up (Ted Hughes Poem)
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
One dignity delays for all (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One dignity delays for all -- One mitred Afternoon -- None can avoid this purple -- None evade this Crown! ...
As Summer into Autumn slips (Emily Dickinson Poem)
As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun ...
Chaplinesque (Hart Crane Poem)
We will make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Mazie’s Ghost (Robert William Service Poems)
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
Prospective Immigrants Please Note (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always ...
WRITING TO ONEGIN (Ruth Padel Poems)
(After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child's writing-desk And passionate cold ...
The Joyous Malingerer (Ogden Nash Poems)
Who is the happy husband? Why, indeed, 'Tis he who's useless in the time of need; Who, asked to unclasp ...
An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...