Hysteria (T. S. Eliot Poem)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth ...
Poems about attention (48 Poems)
Wert Thou but ill — that I might show thee (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Wert Thou but ill -- that I might show thee How long a Day I could endure Though thine attention ...
This Dust, and its Feature — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
The Way to know the Bobolink (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun ...
‘Twould ease — a Butterfly — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twould ease -- a Butterfly -- Elate -- a Bee -- Thou'rt neither -- Neither -- thy capacity -- But, ...
The feet of people walking home (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The feet of people walking home With gayer sandals go -- The Crocus -- til she rises The Vassal of ...
The Soul selects her own Society (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Soul selects her own Society -- Then -- shuts the Door -- To her divine Majority -- Present no ...
Walls (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Without consideration, without pity, without shame they have built great and high walls around me. And now I sit here ...
Sly Dick (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Safety-Clutch (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
539. Song-O that’s the lassie o’ my heart (Robert Burns Poems)
O WAT ye wha that lo'es me And has my heart a-keeping? O sweet is she that lo'es me, As ...
The Man-Moth (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for "mammoth." Here, above, cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight. The whole shadow of ...
When Stretch’d on One’s Bed (Jane Austen Poems)
When stretch'd on one's bed With a fierce-throbbing head, Which preculdes alike thought or repose, How little one cares For ...
Eyesight (A. R. Ammons Poem)
It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I've missed ...
Easter Morning (A. R. Ammons Poem)
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
Do Less (Poem)
DO LESS THINKING, and pay more attention to your heart. DO LESS ACQUIRING, and pay more attention to what you ...