Contentment (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Is it a virtue, as the sages say, The "trivial round and common task" to ply, And for no wider ...
Poems about pact (21 Poems)
Public Waste (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
The Ballad of the Red Earl (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(It is not for them to criticize too minutely the methods the Irish followed, though they might deplore some of ...
Embarcation (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Southampton Docks: October 1899 Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, And Cendric with the Saxons entered in, And Henry's ...
Breaking Camp (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At 1:00 in the morning on a moonlit, starlit night in northern Maine, in the Allagash Wilderness silent strangers, worked ...
Yvytot (Eugene Field Poem)
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE (James Dickey Poem)
They will soon be down To one, but he still will be For a little while still will be stopping ...
Terra nullis ignorata (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We came to find the place contained in legendary tracts, the hidden land of fulsome wealth that we had sorely ...
In soothing, sweetened words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
No, she said, I never knew it was your first. It doesn't matter anyway. I always had an inkling that ...
Futurelessness (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
Despair (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
I have experienc'd The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With ...
Redolence (Michael Burch Poem)
Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; and night bends near, a deepening ...
Bluebird (Charles Bukowski Poem)
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay ...
The Death Baby (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. DREAMS I was an ice baby. I turned to sky blue. My tears became two glass beads. My mouth ...
From a Survivor (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The pact that we made was the ordinary pact of men & women in those days I don't know who ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
A Pact (Ezra Pound Poems)
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman-- I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a ...
The Pact (Sharon Olds Poems)
We played dolls in that house where Father staggered with the Thanksgiving knife, where Mother wept at noon into her ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
And do you think that love itself (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
And do you think that love itself, Living in such an ugly house, Can prosper long? We meet and part; ...
Caroline Branson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over ...