The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin Poem)
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
Poems about aimed (30 Poems)
Hiawatha’s Childhood (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell ...
The White Ships and the Red (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Alden March) With drooping sail and pennant That never a wind may reach, They float in sunless waters Beside ...
Prisoners (Yusef Komunyakaa Poem)
Usually at the helipad I see them stumble-dance across the hot asphalt with crokersacks over their heads, moving toward the ...
The Artist as an Old Man (Erica Jong Poem)
If you ask him he will talk for hours-- how at fourteen he hammered signs, fingers raw with cold, and ...
When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow (A. E. Housman Poem)
When smoke stood up from Ludlow, And mist blew off from Teme, And blithe afield to ploughing Against the morning ...
The Alligator Bride (Donald Hall Poem)
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
Tractor (Ted Hughes Poem)
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
Crow’s Fall (Ted Hughes Poems)
When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white. He decided it glared much too whitely. He decided ...
humming-bird pie (Rg Gregory Poem)
the paiute indians had the bird sussed a humming bird (loaded with seeds) set out to see beyond the sun ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
I took my power in my hand (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I took my power in my hand And went AGAINST the world 'Twas not so much as David had But ...
FAIRY TALE (Graham Burchell Poem)
I can scare children as the Victorians aimed to do even on an August beach tell a fairy tale one ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Neutrinos Explain Suck-Uppers (D. C. Berry Poem)
Neutrinos do zip but swap back and forth into each other, much like Rosypoop and Guildendoo do. For years it ...
Risus Dei (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
Algernon (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father. Young Algernon, the Doctor's ...
103. To Ruin (Robert Burns Poems)
ALL hail! inexorable lord! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall! Thy cruel, woe-delighted train, The ministers of grief ...
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
The Dark House (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Where a faint light shines alone, Dwells a Demon I have known. Most of you had better say "The Dark ...
The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
The Burned Child (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Love has had his way with me. This my heart is torn and maimed Since he took his play with ...
How Gilbert Died (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave ...
Elizabeth (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly's bum. It's red as ...
Attempted Assassination of the Queen (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
God prosper long our noble Queen, And long may she reign! Maclean he tried to shoot her, But it was ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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 ...