Widows (Louise Gluck Poem)
My mother's playing cards with my aunt, Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game my grandmother taught all her ...
Poems about inch (31 Poems)
Under the Boot of the Madman (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The struggle for freedom cloaked in his repression the protesters taken away abducted in the night The people fearful hearing ...
Giving to the Spade (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The sod, the earth, willingly giving to the bite of my spade, soil rich wet loam, clean clear of rocks, ...
Advice To An Old Man of Sixty Three About To Marry a Girle of Sixteen (Thomas Flatman Poem)
Now fie upon him! what is Man, Whose life at best is but a span? When to an inch it ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
The Tradesman and the Scholar (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Three Ha’Pence a Foot (Marriott Edgar Poems)
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
Merops (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play’s Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint (John Donne Poems)
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race Idly, yet quickly run, ...
I stepped from Plank to Plank (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way The Stars about my Head I felt About my ...
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony Toyed ...
Piscine kind of kinship (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
To glibly say that Joe was sort of odd quite missed the point. Peculiar in many ways and kind of ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
Dead poet (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I'm sure it would be easier to survive as a dead poet, I mean it in the surmise that I ...
Tz’u No. 6 (Waiting For You) (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune of "Red Lips" Lonely in my secluded chamber, A thousand sorrows fill every inch of my sensitive ...
Say not the Struggle Naught availeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
SAY not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And ...
I’m Your Man (Leonard Cohen Poems)
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
For Bartleby The Scrivener (Billy Collins Poem)
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
I Go Back To The House For A Book (Billy Collins Poem)
I turn around on the gravel and go back to the house for a book, something to read at the ...
My Nose Is Growing Old (Richard Brautigan Poem)
Yup. A long lazy September look in the mirror say it's true. I'm 31 and my nose is growing old. ...
Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha (Robert Browning Poem)
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
By The Fire-Side (Robert Browning Poem)
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
I Made A Mistake (Charles Bukowski Poem)
I reached up into the top of the closet and took out a pair of blue panties and showed them ...
Poem (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
About the size of an old-style dollar bill, American or Canadian, mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays ...
The Weed (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
I dreamed that dead, and meditating, I lay upon a grave, or bed, (at least, some cold and close-built bower). ...
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 ...