The Snowstorm (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited ...
Poems about architecture (21 Poems)
Fountains in the Sea (Marin Sorescu Poems)
Water: no matter how much, there is still not enough.Cunning life keeps asking for more and then a drop more.Our ...
Moonlight (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
What time the meanest brick and stoneTake on a beauty not their own,And past the flaw of builded woodShines the ...
Architecture (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
Over a delicate arch--an eyebrow of stone--on the unruffled foreheadof a wallin joyful and open windowswhere there are faces instead ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: December (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakesOf water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed:Far fairer than when placidly it ...
At Hovenweep In Cajon Canyon (Norman MacLeod Poems)
The lightning is a silver in the sky, The stars are shingle nails--But when the wind and scarlet desert vie, God's architecture ...
Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Sion (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old,When Solomon's temple stood and flourished! Where most things were of ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: December (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: Far fairer than when ...
What Would Freud Say? (Bob Hicok Poem)
Wasn't on purpose that I drilled through my finger or the nurse laughed. She apologized three times and gave me ...
The Snow-Storm (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
Turtle, Swan (Mark Doty Poem)
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica) (Jean Cocteau Poem)
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
I SEE A WOMAN MAKING UP (Luis Benitez Poem)
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
146. Address to Edinburgh (Robert Burns Poem)
EDINA! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs: ...
INFAMOUS POET (Barry Tebb Poems)
I never did fit in - at six or sixty one - I stand out in a crowd, too young ...
THE SINGING SCHOOL (Barry Tebb Poems)
The Poetry School, The Poetry Book Society, The Poetry Business: So much poetry about you'd think I'd want to shout, ...
AN EVENING WITH JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
Moonlight (Vita Sackville-West Poems)
What time the meanest brick and stone Take on a beauty not their own, And past the flaw of builded ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Enigmas (Pablo Neruda Poems)
You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You ...