The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about fastened (31 Poems)
Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening (Amy Lowell Poem)
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
The Captured Goddess (Amy Lowell Poem)
Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered ...
The Jumblies (Edward Lear Poem)
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of ...
Ambulances (Philip Larkin Poem)
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
Hiawatha’s Childhood (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell ...
The Science Of The Night (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
Crossed Threads (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The silken threads by viewless spinners spun, Which float so idly on the summer air, And help to make each ...
The Dorchester Giant (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...
The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
(Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) THE LEADEN ECHO How to kéep-is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere ...
Houses chapter IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
Freedom XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom." And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside ...
Abiding in Love (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At the heart of the lessons the sermon on the mount the words of our savior savored in our mouths ...
Hence, All You Vain Delights from the Nice Valour (John Fletcher Poem)
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly: There's nought in this ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
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 ...
Encounter (Robert Francis Poem)
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
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 ...
Oh give it Motion — deck it sweet (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Oh give it Motion -- deck it sweet With Artery and Vein -- Upon its fastened Lips lay words -- ...
It was a quiet way — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It was a quiet way -- He asked if I was his -- I made no answer of the Tongue ...
As from the earth the light Balloon (Emily Dickinson Poem)
As from the earth the light Balloon Asks nothing but release -- Ascension that for which it was, Its soaring ...
Alexandrian Kings (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
The Dream (Lord Byron Poem)
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
Garden Francies (Robert Browning Poem)
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
His Wife, The Painter (Charles Bukowski Poems)
There are sketches on the walls of men and women and ducks, and outside a large green bus swerves through ...