In a Castle (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip -- hiss -- drip -- hiss -- fall the raindrops on ...
Poems about kicks (21 Poems)
Robinson (Weldon Kees Poem)
The dog stops barking after Robinson has gone. His act is over. The world is a gray world, Not without ...
The ‘eathen (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
There’s a Regret (William Ernest Henley Poems)
There's a regret So grinding, so immitigably sad, Remorse thereby feels tolerant, even glad. ... Do you not know it ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Anne Sexton Poems)
If you danced from midnight to six A.M. who would understand? The runaway boy who chucks it all to live ...
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
"the withness of the body" --Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, ...
The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar's garden, Tossing ...
Death In The Arctic (Robert William Service Poems)
I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a minute ...
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The autumn feels slowed down, summer still holds on here, even the light seems to last longer than it should ...
An Emu Hunt (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
West of Dubbo the west begins The land of leisure and hope and trust, Where the black man stalks with ...
Kicks (Howard Nemerov Poems)
The fishermen on Lake Michigan, sometimes, For kicks, they spit two hunks of bait on hooks At either end of ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...