Days of 1986 (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised ...
Poems about sixty (31 Poems)
Song of Diego Valdez (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
The Sacrifice of Er-Heb (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
My Rival (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I go to concert, party, ball -- What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive ...
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
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 ...
Certain Maxims Of Hafiz (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I. If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its ...
If (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you ...
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract ...
Scars on Paper (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet (Tony Hoagland Poem)
At this height, Kansas is just a concept, a checkerboard design of wheat and corn no larger than the foldout ...
Autobiography (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
I was born in 1902 I never once went back to my birthplace I don't like to turn back at ...
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
ON HIMSELF (Robert Herrick Poem)
A wearied pilgrim I have wander'd here, Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year; Long I have lasted in this ...
The Dance At The Phoenix (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
Epitaph On A Pessimist (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd I've lived without a dame all my life And wish to God My ...
Pearl Reconsidered (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For so long, in my life, unable to discern, to appreciate the moment of shock, or anger, of desire for ...
Arthur (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wait 'till next year Murmur/ Mantra in a knowing tone - He'd seen the magic - World Champions Bleacher seats ...
To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut in America (Philip Freneau Poem)
Nil mortalibus ardui est Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia Horace FROM Persian looms the silk he wove No Weaver meant should ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Mountain (Robert Frost Poem)
The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Snow (John Davidson Poem)
'Who affirms that crystals are alive?' I affirm it, let who will deny: Crystals are engendered, wax and thrive, Wane ...
Before the arthritis set in (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It's Wednesday, September 6th and a birthday, again, these things arrive tediously on time with wry regularity - and sadly, ...
Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01 (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
For Bartleby The Scrivener (Billy Collins Poem)
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
Dream Song 63: Bats have no bankers and they do not drink (John Berryman Poem)
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, ...