In Answer to a Request (Amy Lowell Poem)
You ask me for a sonnet. Ah, my Dear, Can clocks tick back to yesterday at noon? Can cracked and ...
Poems about sonnet (23 Poems)
1777 (Amy Lowell Poem)
I The Trumpet-Vine Arbour The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats ...
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students (Galway Kinnell Poem)
Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting you were beautiful; goodbye, Miami Beach urologist, ...
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d (John Keats Poems)
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd, And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet Fetter'd, in spite of pained ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Sonnet XXI: A Witless Galant (Michael Drayton Poem)
A witless gallant a young wench that woo'd (Yet his dull spirit her not one jot could move), Entreated me, ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
Nostalgia (Billy Collins Poem)
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
Pan (Michael Burch Poem)
... Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves ... ... Once there were ...
What Forgotten Realm? (Alain Bosquet Poem)
Let me introduce to you my poetry: it's an island flying from book to book searching for the page where ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
139. Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer (Robert Burns Poem)
THIS 1 wot ye all whom it concerns, I, Rhymer Robin, alias Burns, October twenty-third, A ne'er-to-be-forgotten day, Sae far ...
310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
70. Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
248. Pegasus at Wanlockhead (Robert Burns Poems)
WITH Pegasus upon a day, Apollo, weary flying, Through frosty hills the journey lay, On foot the way was plying. ...
Tam O’Shanter (Robert Burns Poems)
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Ambrosia Arbor (N. K. Osho Poems)
Thousandfold flowers unfetters fragrance. Thousandfold powers dowers Deliverance. All frith flowers adore thine aubade! All Ambrosia audacious attunes along cascade! ...
An Enigma (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce, "Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet. Through all the flimsy things we ...
The Quality Of Sprawl (Les Murray Poems)
Sprawl is the quality of the man who cut down his Rolls-Royce into a farm utility truck, and sprawl is ...
Modern Love XXX: What Are We First (George Meredith Poems)
What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of ...
In a Minor Key (Amy Levy Poems)
(AN ECHO FROM A LARGER LYRE.) That was love that I had before Years ago, when my heart was young; ...