The Testing-Tree (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
1 On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark where I could never hope ...
Poems about askew (21 Poems)
La Nuit Blanche (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
The Organ-Blower (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
DEVOUTEST of my Sunday friends, The patient Organ-blower bends; I see his figure sink and rise, (Forgive me, Heaven, my ...
Lost (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I crossed the parking lot The man in the convenience store beyond the gas pumps trying to cash already cashed ...
“Sown in dishonor”! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Sown in dishonor"! Ah! Indeed! May this "dishonor" be? If I were half so fine myself I'd notice nobody! "Sown ...
Tz’u No. 3 (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune "Red Lips" Tired of swinging indolent I rise with a slender hand put right my hair the ...
The End Of March (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk ...
March Elegy (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
I have enough treasures from the past to last me longer than I need, or want. You know as well ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Sea Dreams (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend (Charles Sorley Poems)
I have not brought my Odyssey With me here across the sea; But you'll remember, when I say How, when ...
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
One, who is not, we see; but one, whom we see not, is; Surely this is not that; but that ...
My Friends (Robert William Service Poems)
The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief; And I lay there in the bunk between, ...
Sonnet VII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Fayre eyes, the myrrour of my mazed hart, what wondrous vertue is contaynd in you the which both lyfe and ...
Teddy Bear (Robert William Service Poems)
O Teddy Bear! with your head awry And your comical twisted smile, You rub your eyes -- do you wonder ...
The Ghosts (Robert William Service Poems)
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
Should You Ask At Midnight (Jennifer Reeser Poems)
What would I do without your voice to wake me? Cor ad cor loquitur, I'm loath to know. Kitsch operas ...
On the Night of a Friend’s Wedding (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
If ever I am old, and all alone, I shall have killed one grief, at any rate; For then, thank ...
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 ...
Strumpet Song (Sylvia Plath Poems)
With white frost gone And all green dreams not worth much, After a lean day's work Time comes round for ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...