Poetry Of Departures (Philip Larkin Poem)
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
Poems about backwards (31 Poems)
The Mother-Lodge (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
humming-bird pie (Rg Gregory Poem)
the paiute indians had the bird sussed a humming bird (loaded with seeds) set out to see beyond the sun ...
the man the gun and the dog (Rg Gregory Poem)
yesterday the man was pleased the sun sat in the tree and all upon the land held to the harmony ...
on why it is necessary to talk kindly to frogs (Rg Gregory Poem)
i met a frog in my garden today lurking under a stone - it said there used to be a ...
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 ...
Closer and Closer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He seemed so complacent in the hot August sun on the barrier islands not moving at all basking in the ...
A Vast Confusion (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
Long long I lay in the sands Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the sea And an ...
The Span Of Life (Robert Frost Poem)
The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. (Robert Frost)
Mountains of Delight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
The Quest (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
The Quest (Aleister Crowley Poem)
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
A Pastoral (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Just as the sun was setting Back of the Western hills Grandfather stood by the window Eating the last of ...
Sandpiper (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, ...
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 ...
For The Foxes (Charles Bukowski Poems)
don't feel sorry for me. I am a competent, satisfied human being. be sorry for the others who fidget complain ...
Morgan’s Dog (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Morgan the drover explained, As he drank from his battered quart-pot, Many a slut I have trained; This is the ...
PROPERTIUS (Vlanes Poems)
Desine, Paulle, meum lacrimis urgere sepulcrum: nempe tuas lacrimas litora surda bibent. Propertius, IV.11 Don't cry for me, for only ...
Keep Telling Me (Desi Di Nardo Poems)
It's 12:34 And I hear them Battering me with a foul message The maddening interpretations The two dots taunting Walk ...
The Battle of El-Teb (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame To write in praise of brave General Graham! Whose name will ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
April 24 (David Lehman Poems)
Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive? I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night ...
Virgule (Thomas Lux Poems)
What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying ...
Ninth Inning (David Lehman Poems)
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, Speeding. The body in the booth next to his was ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...