St. John (D H Lawrence Poems)
JOHN, oh John,Thou honourable birdSun-peering eagle.Taking a bird's-eye viewEven of Calvary and ResurrectionNot to speak of Babylon's whoredom.High over the ...
Poems about mundane (21 Poems)
The Straw Parlor (Eugene Field Poems)
Way up at the top of a big stack of strawWas the cunningest parlor that ever you saw!And there could ...
The Chase of Ages (C J Dennis Poems)
Light of my lives! Is the time not yet? Lo, I've brooded on a starThrough many a year, with the ...
The Unknowable. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
O! Sun, resplendent in the smiling morn, As thou dost view the wastes of earth and sky,Canst thou behold the ...
Weary (C J Dennis Poems)
Aw, I'm sick o' the whole darn human race, An' I'm sick o' this mundane ball;I'm sick o' the sight ...
Lines, Written In The Memory Of Elizabeth Smith (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
"OH, thou! whose pure, exalted mind Lives in this record, fair and bright; Oh, thou! whose blameless life combin'd Soft ...
When God Is Born, No Power Prevails (Franciszek Karpinski Poems)
When God is born, no power prevails,Our Lord in nakedness enwound.All fire congeals, all luster pales,Contained is He that knows ...
The Passage of Time’ (Bhartrihari Poems)
"yatraAnekah: kvacidapi gRhe tatra tiSTaty athaiko yatrApy ekas tadanu bahavas tatra naiko2pi cAnte ittham ...
Absolute War (General George S Patton Jnr Poems)
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.If we accept them we will never win.Since by being ...
The Misanthrope (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I think some spiteful fairyMy natal day did graceAnd leave me for a dowryA sympathetic face.Or why do people tell ...
Late Love (Jackie Kay Poem)
How they strut about, people in love, How tall they grow, pleased with themselves, Their hair, glossy, their skin shining. ...
The Legend of Mirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
What we like the least (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sometimes the tasks are mundane downright humbling but that is part of the story' of what it means to be ...
A Holy Week (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The king in celebration, on a donkey entered the holy city, of his ancestor David with palms and cloaks across ...
Acrostics (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alphabetic writing Coming alive on the page Reading the meaning in the letters Overcoming the mundane language Seeing the possibilities ...
A Beat in Concord (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I was sitting there in the traffic, waiting for the light the heat and humidity building in the van, one ...
The straw parlor (Eugene Field Poem)
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Cairo Jag (Keith Douglas Poem)
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, a pasty Syrian with a few words of English ...
Key economy (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
Heaven (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon) Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy ...
Lorelei (Sylvia Plath Poems)
It is no night to drown in: A full moon, river lapsing Black beneath bland mirror-sheen, The blue water-mists dropping ...