The School In August (Philip Larkin Poem)
The cloakroom pegs are empty now, And locked the classroom door, The hollow desks are lined with dust, And slow ...
Poems about swimming (31 Poems)
Hiawatha’s Fishing (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark of cedar, ...
Ode to Fanny (John Keats Poem)
Physician Nature! Let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest; Throw me upon thy ...
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
Contemplation Of The Sword (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
Deer Dancer (Joy Harjo Poem)
Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the hardcore.It was the coldest night of the ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Casualty (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
Death Of A Naturalist (Seamus Heaney Poem)
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted ...
To an Ungentle Critic (Robert Graves Poem)
The great sun sinks behind the town Through a red mist of Volnay wine.... But what's the use of setting ...
The Pond (Louise Gluck Poem)
Night covers the pond with its wing. Under the ringed moon I can make out your face swimming among minnows ...
Into the Flowing River (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Into the community of believers joining the long tradition begun with Jesus in the Jordan falling into the flowing river ...
With Wine in Their Bellies (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What they must have seemed the disciples in the garden unable to stay awake asleep while the master prayed With ...
Swimming Free (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She hung on the ladder's rails unwilling to leave their safety out into the lake, even in my arms Slowly ...
Taillight Soup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The clouds sank down down to the pavement between five and seven tonight taillight soup, headlight soup we were swimming ...
Chatter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A long time ago, when I was young, Back before I learned to respect the realities of heat exchange and ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
Three Ha’Pence a Foot (Marriott Edgar Poems)
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
The Lime-tree Bower my Prison [Addressed to Charles Lamb, o (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
Dejection: An Ode (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
Frost At Midnight (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
Candle Hat (Billy Collins Poem)
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh ...
The Cottage Hospital (John Betjeman Poem)
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
Spring in Town (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
Dawn (Yosa Buson Poem)
Dawn-- fish the cormorants haven't caught swimming in the shallows. (Yosa Buson)
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 ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
466. Ode for General Washington’s Birthday (Robert Burns Poems)
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
Sonnet 37 – Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, ...