MCMXIV (Philip Larkin Poem)
Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns ...
Poems about grinning (31 Poems)
The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin Poem)
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
Things and the Man (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The Grave of the Hundered Head (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A ...
We Are Those People (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. ...
Underwater Autumn (Richard Hugo Poem)
Now the summer perch flips twice and glides a lateral fathom at the first cold rain, the surface near to ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Mount Kearsarge Shines (Donald Hall Poem)
Mount Kearsarge shines with ice; from hemlock branches snow slides onto snow; no stream, creek, or river budges but remains ...
THE WAKE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Come, Anthea, let us two Go to feast, as others do: Tarts and custards, creams and cakes, Are the junkets ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
I DREAM OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER (Maria Mazziotti Gillan Poem)
I imagine them walking down rocky paths toward me, strong, Italian women returning at dusk from fields where they worked ...
THE FAITHLESS BOY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THERE was a wooer blithe and gay, A son of France was he,-- Who in his arms for many a ...
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College (Thomas Gray Poem)
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
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 ...
A Big Gapped Grin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She stood there, at the top of the stair with hand outstretched for me to view her first tooth, clutched ...
Winfreda (Eugene Field Poem)
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
Man’s Injustice Towards Providence (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
The Stupid Jerk I’m Obsessed With (Maggie Estep Poems)
The stupid jerk I'm obsessed with stands so close to me I can feel his breath on my neck and ...
Mr. Apollinax (T. S. Eliot Poem)
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
A Lament (William Drummond Poem)
My thoughts hold mortal strife; I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries Peace to my soul to bring ...
You love me — you are sure (Emily Dickinson Poem)
You love me -- you are sure -- I shall not fear mistake -- I shall not cheated wake -- ...
The sage lectured brilliantly (Stephen Crane Poem)
The sage lectured brilliantly. Before him, two images: "Now this one is a devil, And this one is me." He ...
A man toiled on a burning road (Stephen Crane Poem)
A man toiled on a burning road, Never resting. Once he saw a fat, stupid ass Grinning at him from ...
I stood upon a high place, (Stephen Crane Poem)
I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, ...
Not What Was Meant (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats There was a howl and a clamour ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
How Is Your Heart? (Charles Bukowski Poem)
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores I always had this certain ...
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town (Charles Bukowski Poem)
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
Fair Elanor (William Blake Poems)
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower; The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor Walk'd by the ...