The Round (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets ...
Poems about scribbled (21 Poems)
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Silent Mark (Cecilia Borromeo Poem)
another day is here and my hands are still covered with a mantle of stoic ink words scribbled on a ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Trouv?e (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Oh, why should a hen have been run over on West 4th Street in the middle of summer? She was ...
Large Bad Picture (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or some northerly harbor of Labrador, before he became a schoolteacher a great-uncle painted ...
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
Dream On (James Tate Poems)
Some people go their whole lives without ever writing a single poem. Extraordinary people who don't hesitate to cut somebody's ...
The Hand That Signed The Paper (Dylan Thomas Poems)
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead ...
Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Good-Bye, Little Cabin (Robert William Service Poems)
O dear little cabin, I've loved you so long, And now I must bid you good-bye! I've filled you with ...
His Boys (Robert William Service Poems)
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
Reverence (Robert William Service Poems)
I saw the Greatest Man on Earth, Aye, saw him with my proper eyes. A loin-cloth spanned his proper girth, ...
Wallflower (Robert William Service Poems)
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
Inspiration (Robert William Service Poems)
How often have I started out With no thought in my noodle, And wandered here and there about, Where fancy ...
The Receptionist (Robert William Service Poems)
France is the fairest land on earth, Lovely to heart's desire, And twice a year I span its girth, Its ...
Yes, the Dead Speak to Us (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YES, the Dead speak to us. This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness. Back ...
Accomplished Facts (Carl Sandburg Poems)
EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend the first arbutus bud in her garden. In a last will and testament ...
Implosions (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The world's not wanton only wild and wavering I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire, The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire. ...