Enceladus (Alfred Noyes Poems)
In the Black Country, from a little window, Before I slept, across the haggard wastes Of dust and ...
Poems about smears (21 Poems)
The Ballad Of The Taylor Pup (Eugene Field Poems)
Now lithe and listen, gentles all, Now lithe ye all and harkUnto a ballad I shall sing About Buena Park.Of ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
The Insect (C J Dennis Poems)
From Camoweal to Windywoe, from Windywoe to Thirstyville,We'll drag the line around the map, along the plain, and up the ...
Foma Bobrov And His Spouse (Daniil Ivanovich Kharms Poems)
GRANNY Bobrov (Playing patience) Now that's the card. Oh, it's all coming out topsy-turvy! A king. And where am I ...
Religio Medici (Arthur Conan Doyle Poems)
God's own best will bide the testAnd God's own worst will fall;But, best or worst or last or first,He ...
The Housewife (Fay Inchfawn Poems)
See, I am cumbered, Lord, With serving, and with small vexa- tious things.Upstairs, and down, my feetMust ...
The Poster-Girl after Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Carolyn Wells Poems)
The blessed Poster-girl leaned outFrom a pinky-purple heaven;One eye was red and one was green;Her bang was cut uneven;She had ...
The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
The Sun On The Bookcase (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Once more the cauldron of the sun Smears the bookcase with winy red, And here my page is, and there ...
The Garden (Louise Gluck Poem)
The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, The ecstatic reds of the roses, So ...
It was your first outing (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was your first outing, or more rightly, our first outing with you. We were as proud as new parents ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind ...
It Takes a While to Disappear (Ralph Angel Poem)
The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen. A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman's lips ...
Love Song (William Carlos Williams Poems)
I lie here thinking of you:- the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
Fight (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RED drips from my chin where I have been eating. Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off ...
High Conspiratorial Person (Carl Sandburg Poems)
OUT of the testimony of such reluctant lips, out of the oaths and mouths of such scrupulous liars, out of ...
THE LOBSTER (Carl Rakosi Poems)
Eastern Sea, 100 fathoms, green sand, pebbles, broken shells. Off Suno Saki, 60 fathoms, gray sand, pebbles, bubbles rising. Plasma-bearer ...
To Be of Use (Marge Piercy Poems)
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with ...