Fergus Falling (Galway Kinnell Poem)
He climbed to the top of one of those million white pines set out across the emptying pastures of the ...
Poems about wards (21 Poems)
Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams (Kenneth Koch Poem)
1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but ...
England’s Answer (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
To Sleep (John Keats Poem)
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, ...
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings (Geoffrey Hill Poem)
For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution ...
Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos (Anthony Hecht Poem)
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
The Little Bell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The Pines (Robert William Service Poems)
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Sonnet XLVIII (William Shakespeare Poems)
How careful was I, when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use ...
Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way (William Shakespeare Poems)
How careful was I, when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use ...
The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to burst our bonds and become estranged from ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
In A Light Time (Philip Levine Poems)
The alder shudders in the April winds off the moon. No one is awake and yet sunlight streams across the ...