Afternoon At A Parsonage (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(THE PARSON’S BROTHER, SISTER, AND TWO CHILDREN)Preface.What wonder man should fail to stay A nursling wafted from above,The growth celestial come ...
Poems about afterthought (21 Poems)
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four (Henry Kendall Poems)
I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark, A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;There is no sound within these ...
Late March (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
Alone (Jared Barhite Poems)
Alone! God saw His creature man, Deprived of great felicity, And changed the order of His plan That earth in harmony might be With ...
Rotary (Christina Pugh Poems)
Closer to a bell than a bird,that clapper ringingthe clear nameof its inventor:by turns louderand quieter than a clock,its numbered ...
A November Daisy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Afterthought of summer's bloom!Late arrival at the feast,Coming when the songs have ceasedAnd the merry guests departed,Leaving but an empty ...
Lines In Memory Of Edmund Morris (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Dear Morris--here is your letter--Can my answer reach you now?Fate has left me your debtor,You will remember how;For I went ...
Retroduction To American History (Allen Tate Poems)
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
From ‘Sappho In Leucadia’ (Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer Poems)
Phaon (bitterly)Thus women change-and in their time forget! SapphoTHERE lies the sorrow-if we could forget!For one brief hour you gave ...
The Riddle of the Dinosaur (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)
Behold the mighty dinosaur,Famous in prehistoric lore,Not only for his weight and length,But for his intellectual strength.You will observe by ...
The Hawkbit (Charles G. D. Roberts Poems)
How sweetly on the autumn scene,When haws are red amid the green,The hawkbit shines with face of cheer,The favorite of ...
To A Friend Going Blind (Jorie Graham Poem)
Today, because I couldn't find the shortcut through, I had to walk this town's entire inner perimeter to find where ...
Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
The Summer I Was Sixteen (Geraldine Connolly Poem)
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
In Flight Convergence (Michael Burch Poem)
Serene, almost angelic, the lights of the city attend upon lumbering behemoths shrilly screeching displeasure; they say that nothing is ...
Watching The Mayan Women (Luisa Villani Poems)
I hang the window inside out like a shirt drying in a breeze and the arms that are missing come ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Poems, Potatoes (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line Ousts mistier peers and thrives, murderous, In establishments which imagined lines Can only ...
A Real Motorcycle (Erin Moure Poems)
Unspeakable. The word that fills up the poem, that the head tries to excise. At 6 a.m., the wet lion. ...
The Revolutionary (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...