The Dinner-Party (Amy Lowell Poem)
Fish "So . . ." they said, With their wine-glasses delicately poised, Mocking at the thing they cannot understand. "So ...
Poems about railings (21 Poems)
Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening (Amy Lowell Poem)
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
The fat lady came out first, tearing out roots and moistening drumskins. The fat lady who turns dying octopuses inside ...
Romance Son?mbulo (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on ...
Puck’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
Warning (Jenny Joseph Poem)
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit ...
Elegy (Carolyn Forche Poem)
The page opens to snow on a field: boot-holed month, black hour the bottle in your coat half voda half ...
Dickeyville Grotto (Mark Doty Poem)
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
The Ancestral Dwelling (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
Ye Flags of Picadilly (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
Ye flags of Piccadilly, Where I posted up and down, And wished myself so often Well away from you and ...
Middlesex (John Betjeman Poem)
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
Even Because (Ralph Angel Poem)
Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can't ...
Hatteras Calling (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane shivers and moans upon its dripping pin, ragged on chimneys the cloud whips, the ...
Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo’s Month (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month, Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan's hill, As the green ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
The Touch (Anne Sexton Poems)
For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it ...
Picnic Boat (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SUNDAY night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake ...
North Atlantic (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHEN the sea is everywhere from horizon to horizon .. when the salt and blue fill a circle of horizons ...
Victory (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Something spreading underground won't speak to us under skin won't declare itself not all life-forms want dialogue with the machine-gods ...
There’s Another Blessed Horse Fell Down (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound, Without a care or trouble on your mind, And ...
First Day at School (Roger McGough Poems)
A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, ...