The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Poems about hits (25 Poems)
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 ...
A Roxbury Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
In The Days When The World Was Wide (Henry Lawson Poem)
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” (Robert Lowell Poem)
"It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ...
Notes from the Other Side (Jane Kenyon Poem)
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye ...
FORTUNE OF WAR. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
Midnight (Louise Gluck Poem)
Speak to me, aching heart: what Ridiculous errand are you inventing for yourself Weeping in the dark garage With your ...
Sorrows Interest (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
When things are hard and troublesome, And life for you looks dim; Bills and debts grow daily, And finances seem ...
Needing Your Strength (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Needing Your strength, oh God each and every day not just when crisis hits on my walk here below Needing ...
Her Servant Song (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If we listen, the beauty of her words joining her servant song all of our day long her obedience, the ...
The Old Front Gate (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
W'en daih's chillun in de house, Dey keep on a-gittin' tall; But de folks don' seem to see Dat dey's ...
The Carnival (Robert Creeley Poem)
Whereas the man who hits the gong dis- proves it, in all its simplicity -- Even so the attempt makes ...
THE HUDSON (Luis Benitez Poem)
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
Life (Marvin Bell Poem)
I leave the office, take the stairs, in time to mail a letter before 3 in the afternoon--the last dispatch. ...
260. Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox (Robert Burns Poem)
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
Morning in the Burned House (Margaret Atwood Poem)
In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here ...
The Lovers of the Poor (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
The Amateur Rider (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Him goin' to ride for us! Him -- with the pants and the eyeglass and all. Amateur! don't he just ...
Kicks (Howard Nemerov Poems)
The fishermen on Lake Michigan, sometimes, For kicks, they spit two hunks of bait on hooks At either end of ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
Examples (August 27) (David Lehman Poems)
The last Campbell's tomato soup can of the twentieth century is going to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh That ...
The Drunkard (Philip Levine Poems)
from St. Ambrose He fears the tiger standing in his way. The tiger takes its time, it smiles and growls. ...