Bel Canto (Kenneth Koch Poems)
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...
Poems about athletes (21 Poems)
Muley Malek, The King (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THUNDER of guns, and cries-banners and spears and blood!Troops have died where they stood holding the vantage points-They have raced ...
The Great Beech (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
With heart disposed to memory, let me standNear this monarch and this minstrel of the land,Now that Dian leans so ...
The Locomotive (Julian Tuwim Poems)
A big locomotive has pulled into town,Heavy, humungus, with sweat rolling down,A plump jumbo olive.Huffing and puffing and panting and ...
Glory (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted namesAnd legends into verses for the chorus to sing:Names recalled now only in the ...
Bosnia Tune (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
As you pour yourself a scotchCrush a roach or check your watchAs your hands adjust your tie people dieIn the ...
Guide to the Other Gallery (Dana Gioia Poems)
This is the hall of broken limbsWhere splintered marble athletes lieBeside the arms of cherubim.Nothing is ever thrown away.These butterflies ...
Vitamins And Roughage (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked,The daughters of CaliforniaEducate reluctant humanists;Drive into their skulls with tennis ballsThe unhappy realizationThat nature ...
Moore (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
May 28th, 1879Joy to Ierne, joy,This day a deathless crown is won,Her child of song, her glorious son,Her minstrel boyAttains ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act V (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
Clio Fatidica (E W Bowling Poems)
Tell me, Muse, what colour floateth round the River's ancient head: Is it white and black, or white ...
Atheletes And Aesthesis (E W Bowling Poems)
It was an Undergraduate, his years were scarce nineteen; Discretion's years and wisdom's teeth he plainly ne'er had seen; For ...
To A Victor In A Game Of Pallone (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
The face of glory and her pleasant voice, O fortunate youth, now recognize, And how much nobler than effeminate sloth ...
To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.) (George Meredith Poems)
IAn English heart, my commandant,A soldier's eye you have, awakeTo right and left; with looks askantOn bulwarks not of adamant,Where ...
Music (Boris Pasternak Poems)
The block of flats loomed towerlike.Two sweating athletes, human telpher,Were carrying up narrow stairs,As though a bell onto a belfry,As ...
Sunday Afternoon (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
Packs of houses squat along rotten streets,Around whose hump a gray sun shines.A perfumed, half crazy little poodleCasts exhausted eyes ...
Outside The Crowd (George Meredith Poems)
To sit on History in an easy chair,Still rivalling the wild hordes by whom 'twas writ!Sure, this beseems a race ...
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
Break of Day in the Trenches (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, ...
Gold Medal Gal of Israel (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...