Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
Poems about scalp (21 Poems)
The Limitations Of Youth (Eugene Field Poems)
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west;I'd kill ...
Nadowessian Death-Lament (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright,With the grace with which he sat While he saw the light.Where ...
The Little Velvet Suit (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Last night I got to thinkin' of the pleasant long ago,When I still had on knee breeches, an' I wore ...
All All And All (Dylan Thomas Poems)
IAll all and all the dry worlds lever,Stage of the ice, the solid ocean,All from the oil, the pound of ...
Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
If you want a situation, I'll just tell you the planTo get on to a station, I am just your ...
On A Death’s Head (Elizabeth Tollet Poems)
On this resemblance, where we findA portrait drawn for all mankind,Fond lover! Gaze awhile, to seeWhat beauty's idol charms shall ...
In the Neolithic Age (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”: A Logical Story (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
The limitations of youth (Eugene Field Poem)
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west; I'd ...
Grass (Russell Edson Poem)
The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, ...
Letter to an Archaeologist (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I All all and all the dry worlds lever, Stage of the ice, the solid ocean, All from the oil, ...
Nadowessian Death-Lament (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright, With the grace with which he sat While he saw the ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Cut (Sylvia Plath Poems)
for Susan O'Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for ...
November 6 (David Lehman Poems)
Remember when Khrushchev said "We will bury you!" on the cover of Time I thought he was employing a metaphor ...
Bat (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
At evening, sitting on this terrace, When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara Departs, ...