Moonlight (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
Poems about avenue (31 Poems)
Prelude (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene. Where, ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Narcissus, Photographer (Erica Jong Poem)
"...a frozen memory, like any photo, where nothing is missing, not even, and especially, nothingness..." -- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up" ...
The Twilight Turns (James Joyce Poem)
The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees ...
Paragraphs from a Day-Book (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Third Avenue In Sunlight (Anthony Hecht Poem)
Third Avenue in sunlight. Nature's error. Already the bars are filled and John is there. Beneath a plentiful lady over ...
The Widow (Thomas Hardy Poem)
By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue Towards her door I went, And sunset on her window-panes Reflected our intent. The creeper ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
Juke Box Love Song (Langston Hughes Poem)
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the ...
Night Funeral In Harlem (Langston Hughes Poem)
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay-- His insurance ...
Theme For English B (Langston Hughes Poem)
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it ...
The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes Poem)
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on ...
crematorium-return (Rg Gregory Poem)
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
MORNING LAMENT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden, Tell me what great sin have I committed, That thou keep'st me to the rack ...
Of The Ever-Changing Agitation In The Air (Jorie Graham Poem)
The man held his hands to his heart as he danced. He slacked and swirled. The doorways of the little ...
Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the street, a bird perched on the ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Healing a Nation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
That phrase, "healing a nation" kept going through my mind this morning thinking about the legacy, the model, the example ...
Leaves in a Plane of Space (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A cluster of 4 leaves at the end of a branch in October New England easier for the mind to ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service (T. S. Eliot Poems)
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
Man Listening To Disc (Billy Collins Poem)
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
Neither Snow (Billy Collins Poem)
When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow, the distinguishable flakes blowing sideways, looked like krill fleeing ...
Winter Nightfall (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
The day begins to droop,-- Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun. The hazy ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Love Lies Sleeping (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets ...