The Cross-Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
A bullet through his heart at dawn. On the table a letter signed with a woman's name. A wind that ...
Poems about flickers (21 Poems)
An Aquarium (Amy Lowell Poem)
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
People at Night (Denise Levertov Poem)
A night that cuts between you and you and you and you and you and me : jostles us apart, ...
Day’s End (Tu Fu Poems)
Oxen and sheep were brought back down Long ago, and bramble gates closed. Over Mountains and rivers, far from my ...
The Knife (Keith Douglas Poem)
Can I explain this to you? Your eyes are entrances the mouths of caves I issue from wonderful interiors upon ...
Me, change! Me, alter! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Me, change! Me, alter! Then I will, when on the Everlasting Hill A Smaller Purple grows -- At sunset, or ...
Dinner at the Who’s Who (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems)
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Corn Hut Talk (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WRITE your wishes on the door and come in. Stand outside in the pools of the harvest moon. Bring in ...
Fire-Logs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NANCY HANKS dreams by the fire; Dreams, and the logs sputter, And the yellow tongues climb. Red lines lick their ...
Galoots (Carl Sandburg Poems)
GALOOTS, you hairy, hankering, Snousle on the bones you eat, chew at the gristle and lick the last of it. ...
Winter (George William Russell Poems)
A DIAMOND glow of winter o'er the world: Amid the chilly halo nigh the west Flickers a phantom violet bloom ...
Good Old Moon (Li Po Poems)
When I was a boy I called the moon a white plate of jade, sometimes it looked like a great ...
Morning Song (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its ...
Mirror (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted ...
Fire (Dorothea Mackeller Poems)
This life that we call our own Is neither strong nor free; A flame in the wind of death, It ...
Fire (Dorothea MacKellar Poems)
This life that we call our own Is neither strong nor free; A flame in the wind of death, It ...
New Year’s Eve (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
There are only two things now, The great black night scooped out And this fireglow. This fireglow, the core, And ...
The Inheritance (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Since you did depart Out of my reach, my darling, Into the hidden, I see each shadow start With recognition, ...
The Light o’ the Moon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...