Where is it Clean (Evie Shockley Poems)
when your mother can rise from her placeon the pew during the early service,early enough that the sun barely fills ...
Poems about arrangements (21 Poems)
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Du Fu Poems)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable,And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy.I look up our southern neighbor. But ...
Ginger’s Cobber (C J Dennis Poems)
'E wears perjarmer soots an' cleans 'is teeth, That's wot I reads. It fairly knocked me flat,"Me soljer cobber, be ...
A Marriage (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore. 2. An auto going south, and words in a room, And outside, pink of ...
Botany Bay 1786 (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Away with those whimsical bubbles of airWhich only excite a momentary stare;Attention to plans of utility pay,Weigh anchor, and steer ...
The Addict (Anne Sexton Poems)
Sleepmonger,deathmonger,with capsules in my palms each night,eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottlesI make arrangements for a pint-sized journey.I'm ...
MAUBERLEY (Ezra Pound Poems)
ITurned from the 'eau-fortePar Jaquemart'To the strait headOf Messalina:'His true PenelopeWas Flaubert,'And his toolThe engraver's.Firmness,Not the full smile,His art, but ...
R-E-M-O-R-S-E (George Ade Poems)
The cocktail is a pleasant drink;It's mild and harmless - I don't think!When you've had one, you call for two,And ...
A Ballad of Burial (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
("Saint Proxed's ever was the Church for peace") If down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take ...
The Surface (Jorie Graham Poem)
It has a hole in it. Not only where I concentrate. The river still ribboning, twisting up, into its re- ...
Mind (Jorie Graham Poem)
The slow overture of rain, each drop breaking without breaking into the next, describes the unrelenting, syncopated mind. Not unlike ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Tu Fu Poem)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
Flee On Your Donkey (Anne Sexton Poems)
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
The Addict (Anne Sexton Poems)
Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles I make arrangements ...
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee (Howard Nemerov Poems)
I tell you that I see her still At the dark entrance of the hall. One gas lamp burning near ...
A New Year’s Resolution to Leave Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893, For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee, Owing to the ...
Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
The Battle of Cressy (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 26th of August, the sun was burning hot, In the year of 1346, which will never be ...
The Battle of Waterloo (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...