Yes And No (Laura Riding Jackson Poems)
Across a continent imaginaryBecause it cannot be discovered nowUpon this fully apprehended planet-No more applicants considered,Alas, alas-Ran an animal unzoological,Without ...
Poems about anatomy (21 Poems)
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto VII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Contemplation.ARGUMENT. Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis, Quae meli?s possem Mira silendo loqui! Da, DEUS, Illa canam, quae Vox ...
Academe (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Pleasanter than the hills of Thessaly,Nearer and dearer to the poet's heartThan the blue ripple belting Salamis,Or long grass waving ...
His Coy Mistress To Mr. Marvell (A D Hope Poems)
Since you have world enough and timeSir, to admonish me in rhyme,Pray Mr Marvell, can it beYou think to have ...
What Dark Days Do (Everard Jack Appleton Poems)
I sorter like a gloomy day, Th' kind that jest _won't_ smile; It makes a feller hump hisself ...
The Door (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
a prophet half brought down.from the crossa dangling martyr.since one hinge brokethe heavy medievel doorflangs on one hinge alone.one corner ...
A science – so the Savants say (Emily Dickinson Poems)
100A science - so the Savants say,"Comparative Anatomy" -By which a single bone -Is made a secret to unfoldOf some ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Yes And No (Laura Riding Jackson Poem)
Across a continent imaginary Because it cannot be discovered now Upon this fully apprehended planet- No more applicants considered, Alas, ...
Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter (Thomas Hardy Poem)
These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome; Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome Lies bare ...
The Naked And The Nude (Robert Graves Poem)
For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress ...
Number 8 (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant a face as easily hurt by laughter or light ...
A science — so the Savants say, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A science -- so the Savants say, "Comparative Anatomy" -- By which a single bone -- Is made a secret ...
Cherry bomb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Before Sleep (Catherine Anderson Poem)
I was in love with anatomy the symmetry of my body poised for flight, the heights it would take over ...
Captain Carpenter (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere ...
from The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are: the false silence of sound drowning sound, and there--proud, ...
Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...
Epidermal Macabre (Theodore Roethke Poems)
Indelicate is he who loathes The aspect of his fleshy clothes, -- The flying fabric stitched on bone, The vesture ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...