Enuma Elish (When on high) (Anonymous Asian Poems)
When on high the heaven had not been named, Firm ground below had not been called by name, Naught but ...
Poems about addresses (20 Poems)
The Kalevala – Rune V (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAVOINEN'S LAMENTATION.Far and wide the tidings travelled,Far away men heard the storyOf the flight and death of Aino,Sister dear of ...
The Kalevala – Rune VIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
MAIDEN OF THE RAINBOW.Pohyola's fair and winsome daughter,Glory of the land and water,Sat upon the bow of heaven,On its highest ...
The Christening (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
(Of my Brother's infant Son, February 21, 1839.)I.THERE is a sound of laughter light and gay, And hurried welcomes, as ...
Mugging (I) (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
I Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth street's dusk- Walked out of my home ...
Bringing Home the Cows (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Shadows of the twilight falling On the mountain's brow,To each other birds are calling In the ...
Occupational Hazard (Sophie Hannah Poem)
He has slept with accountants and brokers, With a cowgirl (well, someone from Healds). He has slept with non-smokers and ...
In Memoriam Paul Celan (Edward Hirsch Poem)
Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, ...
To A New England Poet (Philip Freneau Poem)
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
257. Ode on the Departed Regency Bill (Robert Burns Poem)
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
My Philosophy of Life (John Ashbery Poem)
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Of Three Or Four In The Room (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Out of three or four in the room One is always standing at the window. Forced to see the injustice ...
Psalm 32 Part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
A guilty conscience eased by confession and pardon. While I keep silence, and conceal My heavy guilt within my heart, ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Madam La Maquise (Robert William Service Poems)
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Truce (Paul Muldoon Poems)
It begins with one or two soldiers And one or two following With hampers over their shoulders. They might be ...
Whenever I Go There (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Whenever I go there everything is changed The stamps on the bandages the titles Of the professors of water The ...