The Assault Heroic (Robert Graves Poem)
Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day Of five damned days and nights, Five sleepless ...
Poems about attack (31 Poems)
Laughter and Tears IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat ...
In Secret They Were Sent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Magi, astrologers, wise men. They were the outsiders, the unclean foreigners; but he needed spies to find the baby to ...
Where Will They Attack (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Would that I had the crystal ball to answer her quaking question a day or two before the anniversary of ...
Sounds of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Crashing waves on a rocky coast, rain falling on parched ground The cry of a newborn baby, the call of ...
Blocks of Snow (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Blocks of snow, piled higher and higher building a wall, a ring a start of an igloo, a fort, a ...
Pearl Reconsidered (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For so long, in my life, unable to discern, to appreciate the moment of shock, or anger, of desire for ...
Circles (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Controlled chaos Sharp angles Ripped colors Shapes alternating Sharp and subdued Tragedy And rage Pulled onto page Within a Continuous ...
Anniversary (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Cities (Hilda Doolittle Poem)
Can we believe -- by an effort comfort our hearts: it is not waste all this, not placed here in ...
The Hermit (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
Power (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
The Hermit (Aleister Crowley Poem)
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
Power (Aleister Crowley Poem)
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
Madmen (Billy Collins Poem)
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
A True Story, for Jeremy (Michael Burch Poem)
Jeremy hit the ball today, over the fence and far away. So very, very far away a neighbor had to ...
Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Lines to a Don (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Giant Snail (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk ...