Abstemia (Gelett Burgess Poems)
In Mystic Argot often Confounded with FarragoIf aught that stumbles in my speech Or stutters in my pen,Or, claiming ...
Poems about stumbles (21 Poems)
Twilight (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
A fat young man plays with a pond.The wind has caught itself in a tree.The pale sky seems to be ...
The Speakers (Weldon Kees Poem)
"A equals X," says Mister One. "A equals B," says Mister Two. "A equals nothing under the sun But A," ...
Praying Drunk (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk. Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks. I ought to ...
Runagate Runagate (Robert Hayden Poem)
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters ...
In Time Of “The Breaking Of Nations” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half ...
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 ...
Joy in My Failing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wanting to be worthy of God's saving grace yet joy in my failing my stumbles in this life For God's ...
The ride to bumpville (Eugene Field Poem)
Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
A Runnable Stag (John Davidson Poem)
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
Footsteps (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
Sleeping Out: Full Moon (Rupert Brooke Poem)
They sleep within. . . . I cower to the earth, I waking, I only. High and cold thou dreamest, ...
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 ...
Lucretius (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
Music In The Bush (Robert William Service Poems)
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
"the withness of the body" --Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, ...
The Shooting Of Dan McGrew (Robert William Service Poems)
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was ...
Sainte-Nitouche (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Though not for common praise of him, Nor yet for pride or charity, Still would I make to Vanderberg One ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...