March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
Poems about absent-minded (16 Poems)
How Jack Found That Beans May Go Back On A Chap (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, And with expression cynical For half the day a ...
The Fly In The Ointment (Joseph Furphy Poems)
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it ...
Exorcism (Robert Friend Poems)
I know who's scratching at the door.Clock, there's no use yawning.More than boards are loose in the floor-I wasn't born ...
Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
Sawin’ Wood (C J Dennis Poems)
I wondered wot was doin'. First I seenOle Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen. I'm in the paddick slashin' down ...
A Death In The Family (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
I was off to Los Angeles to the burial of my cousin. The drive, as usual, was tedious, except for ...
Election Aftermath (C J Dennis Poems)
1. ANTE-ELECTIONSNow, a cove the name of Blabb, a politician, He's a haughty sort o' high pan-jan-dee-ram;An' he holds ...
Last Days Of Alice (Allen Tate Poems)
Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,Declines upon her lost and twilight age;Above in the dozing leaves the grinning catQuivers ...
July (Boris Pasternak Poems)
A ghost is roaming through the building,And shadows in the attic browse;Persistently intent on mischiefA goblin roams about the house.He ...
Waiting (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Still dark. I don't trustthe newspaper that ignores me."The accused murderer hada disturbed childhood."I shouldn't worry. As Ithink this the ...
Tom Merritt (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
At first I suspected something —She acted so calm and absent-minded.And one day I heard the back door shut,As I ...
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Learning by Doing (Howard Nemerov Poems)
They're taking down a tree at the front door, The power saw is snarling at some nerves, Whining at others. ...
Tom Merritt (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
At first I suspected something -- She acted so calm and absent-minded. And one day I heard the back door ...