Her Reproach (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! Cold wisdom's words will ease thy track for thee; Aye, ...
Poems about skeleton (31 Poems)
The Ghost Of The Past (Thomas Hardy Poem)
We two kept house, the Past and I, The Past and I; I tended while it hovered nigh, Leaving me ...
Channel Firing (Thomas Hardy Poem)
That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought ...
THE DANCE OF DEATH. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
Vision X (Khalil Gibran Poem)
There in the middle of the field, by the side of a crystalline stream, I saw a bird-cage whose rods ...
Sunflower Sutra (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Out behind our yard (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Out behind our yard in the far right corner just to the right beyond the boundary, the fences a disturbed ...
Vertebrate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Nothing so much as a beautiful exposed skeleton, standing tall, all erect so were the stately trees, going down the ...
Nightfall (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The sun drops behind the shore, The sky aglow. Nightfall on the water. I pull and push The canoe away ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
I. The Witch of Coös (Robert Frost Poem)
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
Rhapsody on a Windy Night (T. S. Eliot Poem)
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
Whispers of Immortality (T. S. Eliot Poem)
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
Thirty Bob a Week (John Davidson Poem)
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
This Night (William Henry Davies Poem)
This night, as I sit here alone, And brood on what is dead and gone, The owl that's in this ...
Last Poem of my 45th Year (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I thought of how a whale's white ribs could choke the sky's blue neck, massive vertebrae half-buried in sand, and ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
A list of some observation… (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
A list of some observation. In a corner, it's warm. A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on. ...
Hymn To Death (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
THE DANCE OF DEATH (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
SPLEEN (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I'M like some king in whose corrupted veins Flows ag?d blood; who rules a land of rains; Who, young in ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Breaking and Entering (Ralph Angel Poem)
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret (Conrad Aiken Poem)
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten; The music changes tone, you wake, remember Deep worlds you lived before,-deep ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
The Song of Los (William Blake Poems)
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...