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 licks (26 Poems)
Fool’s Money Bags (Amy Lowell Poems)
Outside the long window, With his head on the stone sill, The dog is lying, Gazing at his Beloved. His ...
1777 (Amy Lowell Poem)
I The Trumpet-Vine Arbour The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats ...
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
Jerome (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon. Der heilige Hieronymus--his lion is at the zoo-- Listens, listens. All ...
The Alligator Bride (Donald Hall Poem)
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
Tubbie (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hot water soaks into her tense body Bouquet of flower, scented candles and a glass of chardonnay Water licks the ...
The Pasture (Robert Frost Poem)
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch ...
The Melting (Russell Edson Poem)
An old woman likes to melt her husband. She puts him in a melting device, and he pours out the ...
The Ad-Dressing Of Cats (T. S. Eliot Poem)
You've read of several kinds of Cat, And my opinion now is that You should need no interpreter To understand ...
Silvered In The Dying Light (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Silvered in the dying light she lies a silent sleeping twinkle coloured Eve who heaves and breathes a sinuous sigh ...
Fear (Hart Crane Poem)
The host, he says that all is well And the fire-wood glow is bright; The food has a warm and ...
Badger (John Clare Poem)
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
Old Pictures In Florence (Robert Browning Poem)
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
I Taught Myself To Live Simply (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander ...
62. Epistle to William Simson (Robert Burns Poems)
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
The Little Girl Found (William Blake Poems)
All the night in woe, Lyca's parents go: Over vallies deep. While the desarts weep. Tired and woe-begone. Hoarse with ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
From an Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what ...
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Damon The Mower (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Heark how the Mower Damon Sung, With love of Juliana stung! While ev'ry thing did seem to paint The Scene ...
Pastoral (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
If it were only still!- With far away the shrill Crying of a cock; Or the shaken bell From a ...
The Night-Fire (Claude McKay Poems)
No engines shrieking rescue storm the night, And hose and hydrant cannot here avail; The flames laugh high and fling ...
Mad Day In March (Philip Levine Poems)
Beaten like an old hound Whimpering by the stove, I complicate the pain That smarts with promised love. The oilstove ...