thirteeners (Rg Gregory Poem)
18 if you want a revolution attack symbols not systems - the simple forms that (blithely) give the truth away ...
Poems about actors (21 Poems)
A Christian Lament (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A pastor asked me to think about, write about ponder the decision the change in course inexorably to the edge ...
Actors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Plaintiffs and defendants Appellant appellee Pleader, respondent Opposing counsel Judge and jury Actors on the stage Assigned roles Scripted lines ...
With brutus in st. jo (Eugene Field Poem)
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
West Riding (Ian Emberson Poem)
Bright sari in a darkened street - the lilting grey of Yorkshire sky; rust requiems for demolished mills - repeating ...
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path’d Experience (Michael Drayton Poems)
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide, Her simple followers evidently shows Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, Nor yet wise Reason absolutely ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Guilty Of Dust (Frank Bidart Poem)
up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G ...
For John Clare (John Ashbery Poem)
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
At The Door (David Wagoner Poems)
All actors look for them-the defining moments When what a character does is what he is. The script may say, ...
Wallflower (Anne Sexton Poems)
Come friend, I have an old story to tell you- Listen. Sit down beside me and listen. My face is ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Clouds Gathering (Charles Simic Poems)
It seemed the kind of life we wanted. Wild strawberries and cream in the morning. Sunlight in every room. The ...
Electra On Azalea Path (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The day you died I went into the dirt, Into the lightless hibernaculum Where bees, striped black and gold, sleep ...
Bohemia (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much. Sculptors and singers and those of ...
Love Is A Parallax (Sylvia Plath Poems)
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
Burning of the Exeter Theatre (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember, The burning of the Theatre at Exeter on ...
Editor Whedon (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be ...
Blanche Sweet (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.") Beauty has a throne-room In our humorous town, Spoiling its ...