The Cellist (Galway Kinnell Poem)
At intermission I find her backstage still practicing the piece coming up next. She calls it the "solo in high ...
Poems about amount (29 Poems)
A Dialogue (George Herbert Poem)
Man. SWEETEST Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having, Quickly should I then control Any thought of waving. ...
Where the Turkeys had trod (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Just west of the round-a-bout where the beach and the mountain meet just west on the state highway heading for ...
When They Answered His Call (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Each of them paid when they answered his call not by the amount for the time in the field So ...
Glorified with Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Because God is eternal before and after time knowing all that was and all there is yet to be Knowing ...
Confronting the Giant (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
standing when we should the world in the breach confronting the giant with our lives much that we can teach ...
Whoa! (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Whoa! or so she said in that perfect five-year old way, "that's a lot of peanuts!" she marveled, in her ...
Meticulous (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
Landscape At The End Of The Century (Stephen Dunn Poem)
The sky in the trees, the trees mixed up with what's left of heaven, nearby a patch of daffodils rooted ...
Named (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
Hope is a subtle Glutton — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is ...
8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain (Jim Carroll Poem)
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Tomes (Billy Collins Poem)
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
THE TABLE IN A RESTAURANT (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman The moment I close my eyes in meditation on the unfathomable I visualize golden fleeces of cloud ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Garden Francies (Robert Browning Poem)
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
Rabbi Ben Ezra (Robert Browning Poem)
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
In The Secular Night (Margaret Atwood Poem)
In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It's two-thirty. Everyone has deserted you, or this is ...
91. The Vision (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
Observation (Dorothy Parker Poems)
If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night ...
Conversation with Comrade Lenin (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are ...
The Battle of Bannockburn (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
Juggling Jerry (George Meredith Poems)
Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: By the old hedge-side we'll halt a stage. It's nigh my ...
The Sinking Fund Cried (Thomas Moore Poems)
["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were ...
Magdalen (Amy Levy Poems)
All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet ...
December 7 (David Lehman Poems)
As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a ...