Waking in the Blue (Robert Lowell Poem)
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. ...
Poems about strut (24 Poems)
Late Love (Jackie Kay Poem)
How they strut about, people in love, How tall they grow, pleased with themselves, Their hair, glossy, their skin shining. ...
To Certain Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
The Ruined Maid (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence ...
THE EAGLE AND DOVE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
The Next War (Robert Graves Poem)
You young friskies who today Jump and fight in Father's hay With bows and arrows and wooden spears, Playing at ...
Eye Candy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You're there with that hair framing your smile Social saccharin Pixie sticks, or pez All about the affectation The pose, ...
Rave (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Heads snap at the Yankee white boy Anachronistic and jarring Tie dyed top hat Garish and loud Quilted and heavy ...
The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
The Tradesman and the Scholar (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Of Bronze — and Blaze (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with ...
An altered look about the hills (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An altered look about the hills -- A Tyrian light the village fills -- A wider sunrise in the morn ...
Fame’s Penny-Trumpet (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
Christmass (John Clare Poem)
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
The Ghost of the Murderer’s Hut (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
My horse had been lamed in the foot In the rocks at the back of the run, So I camped ...
Ballade Of A Great Weariness (Dorothy Parker Poems)
There's little to have but the things I had, There's little to bear but the things I bore. There's nothing ...
Song of Perfect Propriety (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind ...
Conversation with Comrade Lenin (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are ...
No, You Be A Lone Eagle (Ogden Nash Poems)
I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded. I just can't see any ...
To Fly In Just Your Suit (Les Murray Poems)
Humans are flown, or fall; humans can't fly. We're down with the gravity-stemmers, rare, thick-boned, often basso. Most animals above ...
Account (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...