A Pastoral (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
Oh! tell me ye shepherds, tell me I pray,Have you seen the fair Jessie pass by this way?You ne'er could ...
Poems about awkwardly (21 Poems)
Embrace Noir (Nick Flynn Poems)
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace& grapple a handgun at stomach level between them.They jerk ...
Elegy In A Botanic Gardens (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
THE smell of birds' nests faintly burningIs autumn. In the autumn I cameWhere spring had used me better,To the clear ...
First The Dog (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
to LaikaSo first the faithful dog will goand after it a pig or assthrough the black grass will beat a ...
Beads (Rachel Korn Poems)
Give me my friend, a necklace of beads-My bare throatLongs for smooth, yellow amber,The tears of an old primeval forest.Their ...
Towns in Colour (Amy Lowell Poems)
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Hides And Tallow (Edwin James Brady Poems)
HERE ain't a lavender ditty, Sung by a sweet-scented cove; Here ain't no wine-inspired, witty Story of Honour and Love. ...
The Other (Edward Thomas Poems)
The forest ended. Glad I wasTo feel the light, and hear the humOf bees, and smell the drying grassAnd the ...
The Church (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
IThe blinding July sun at ten o'clockGlares on the white walls of the little church,-The shingles silver-gray, the shutters green,Sunflowers ...
To A Soubrette (Eugene Field Poems)
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tenderMy thoughts go back in time's dull ...
Meeting (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.Snakes, no ...
A Cigarette Butt (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It was the incongruity the foreign color, out of place sand camouflage on the Humvee merging with me, on the ...
To a soubrette (Eugene Field Poem)
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
Embrace Noir (Nick Flynn Poem)
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
Meeting (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they ...
Flee On Your Donkey (Anne Sexton Poems)
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
The Breast (Anne Sexton Poems)
This is the key to it. This is the key to everything. Preciously. I am worse than the gamekeeper's children ...
The Wee Shop (Robert William Service Poems)
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
City Gent (Craig Raine Poems)
On my desk, a set of labels or a synopsis of leeks, blanched by the sun and trailing their roots ...
Stepping Backward (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow, Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by. This is the leave ...