The Bombardment (Amy Lowell Poem)
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
Poems about sways (31 Poems)
Love Again (Philip Larkin Poem)
Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he's taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, ...
Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom ...
My Lady’s Law (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The Law whereby my lady moves Was never Law to me, But 'tis enough that she approves Whatever Law it ...
Flood (James Joyce Poem)
Goldbrown upon the sated flood The rockvine clusters lift and sway; Vast wings above the lambent waters brood Of sullen ...
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
A Brother and Sister O I admire and sorrow! The heart's eye grieves Discovering you, dark tramplers, tyrant years. A ...
Duns Scotus’s Oxford (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town ...
ANOTHER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
Go! obedient to my call, Turn to profit thy young days, Wiser make betimes thy breast In Fate's balance as ...
Odysseus’ Decision (Louise Gluck Poems)
The great man turns his back on the island. Now he will not die in paradise nor hear again the ...
Bits of Clay (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The swan boats motionless the pond turning to a mud flat the flowers, tulips shimmering in yellows, oranges, and reds ...
Night in New Orleans (Nuhawluns) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Big Easy A world away From home My ears rang and sang With the loud jazz music The jumbalaya ...
A Carpet of Clover (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the small space the spare bedroom-sized place between the maple tree and the shrub, just beyond the dandelion patch ...
The Bear (Robert Frost Poem)
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
The Sound of the Trees (Robert Frost Poem)
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise ...
The Silken Tent (Robert Frost Poem)
She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew ...
Macavity: The Mystery Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
The Love a Life can show Below (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon ...
Thought it was America (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is there anything which isn't made in China? The answer is. of course there is, the question was rhetorical, a ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Adela (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
Adela (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
Snake (John Burnside Poem)
As cats bring their smiling mouse-kills and hypnotised birds, slinking home under the light of a summer's morning to offer ...
Road and Hills (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
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 ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
The Forsaken Merman (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...