Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (A. E. Housman Poem)
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
Poems about acquire (21 Poems)
Laughter and Tears IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat ...
The Bean Beckons (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Out of my way those wandering not focused on what they are there to acquire move from in front to ...
Living that simple life (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our lives full of stress fighting a race day to day rats on the treadmill, the maze trying to find ...
Holding onto our Treasure (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So hard to give up, the things that we acquire holding onto our treasure on earth when Jesus is calling, ...
Learning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Voracious appetite For learning new things about many topics To acquire knowledge and context of why things are as they ...
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 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 ...
Four Quartets 2: East Coker (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Away from Home are some and I — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Away from Home are some and I -- An Emigrant to be In a Metropolis of Homes Is easy, possibly ...
‘Tis One by One — the Father counts — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Tis One by One -- the Father counts -- And then a Tract between Set Cypherless -- to teach the ...
Anna Comnena (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
In the prologue to her Alexiad, Anna Comnena laments her widowhood. Her soul is dizzy. "And with rivers of tears," ...
Executive (John Betjeman Poem)
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
The Flesh and the Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
The Future (Matthew Arnold Poem)
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
MARIE LAVEAU TALKS ABOUT MAGIC FROM A CONFESSIONAL IN ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL (Chris Tusa Poems)
Marie Laveau, a colored woman who eventually became known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, often used her knowledge ...
Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, ...
My Room (Robert William Service Poems)
I think the things I own and love Acquire a sense of me, That gives them value far above The ...
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees ...