Pantoum Of The Great Depression (Donald Justice Poem)
Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were ...
Poems about apparent (31 Poems)
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 ...
Darkness Around Us (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are to be light commissioned to witness to remain authentic to be salt of the earth The darkness around ...
The Grace of Maples (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God's grace awash with color showering down on us even in their dying The maples singing all of creation alive ...
Preparing for Easter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In fasting, in praying in the mark of the ashes preparing for Easter in penitent submission No longer the babe ...
A Hammer Blow to the Ice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe the metaphor shouldn't be pebbles thrown into the pond; maybe the more apt analogy the hope, and the trepidation ...
Prof. vere de blaw (Eugene Field Poem)
Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
t of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Enter, as in the Temple of Jerusalem, ATHALIA, MATHAN, ABNER WHY, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen, ...
Paul’s Wife (Robert Frost Poems)
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
The Having To Love Something Else (Russell Edson Poem)
There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his father for his mother's hand in marriage, and ...
Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry (Stephen Dunn Poem)
Relax. This won't last long. Or if it does, or if the lines make you sleepy or bored, give in ...
Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified (John Donne Poem)
If faithful souls be alike glorified As angels, then my fathers soul doth see, And adds this even to full ...
High from the earth I heard a bird, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...
Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun ...
The Obesion (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
A Wicker Basket (Robert Creeley Poem)
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings ...
In the night (Stephen Crane Poem)
In the night Grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys, And the peaks looked toward God alone. "O Master that movest ...
YARNER (Graham Burchell Poem)
A place of dryad and hamadryad, there are eyes here by the million. Many divert to watch me. Threatened, they ...
ABOUT LOVE FOR BARBARIANS (Luis Benitez Poem)
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
THE HUDSON (Luis Benitez Poem)
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
Rondeau at the Train Stop (Erin Belieu Poem)
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay drifting toward me on the T stop, the train circling the ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
At The Fishhouses (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in ...
Poetics (A. R. Ammons Poem)
I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Syringa (John Ashbery Poem)
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Death Wants More Death (Charles Bukowski Poems)
death wants more death, and its webs are full: I remember my father's garage, how child-like I would brush the ...