Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
Poems about odd (51 Poems)
The Primrose (John Donne Poem)
Upon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav'n would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go To his ...
The Zeroes — taught us — Phosphorous — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Zeroes -- taught us -- Phosphorous -- We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers -- when a ...
The first Day’s Night had come (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The first Day's Night had come -- And grateful that a thing So terrible -- had been endured -- I ...
That odd old man is dead a year — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
That odd old man is dead a year -- We miss his stated Hat. 'Twas such an evening bright and ...
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad, There's not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boughs -- ...
Just lost, when I was saved! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, ...
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset How the Hemlocks burn -- How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder ...
Our journey had advanced — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...
Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Not Death -- for who is He? The Porter of my Father's Lodge As ...
Our lives are Swiss (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Our lives are Swiss -- So still -- so Cool -- Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains ...
I had been hungry, all the Years — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I had been hungry, all the Years -- My Noon had Come -- to dine -- I trembling drew the ...
I’m “wife” — I’ve finished that (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I'm "wife" -- I've finished that -- That other state -- I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now -- It's safer ...
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 ...
Mountains of Delight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
No further slice of me (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
A Song of Defeat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
The Methodist (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, These representatives of God, In color, way of life and evil, Should be ...
Circulation (Raymond Carver Poem)
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair (William Cowper Poem)
Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her ...
The Garden of Janus (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Colophon (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
The Garden of Janus (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Colophon (Aleister Crowley Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Walrus And The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Tomes (Billy Collins Poem)
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
Thesaurus (Billy Collins Poem)
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
I Ask You (Billy Collins Poem)
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...