Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Poems about batten (21 Poems)
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 05 – Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life (Lucretius Poems)
And now to what remains!- Since I've resolvedBy what arrangements all things come to passThrough the blue regions of the ...
The Spanish Dancer (Verse X) (Jose Marti Poems)
My soul tremulous and forlornAt nightfall will grow lonely:There's a show, let us go seeThe Spanish dancer perform.It is well ...
Erle Robert’s Mice. In Chaucer’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tway Mice, full Blythe and Amicable,Batten beside Erle Robert's Table.Lies there ne Trap their Necks to catch,Ne old black Cat ...
The Refinery (Robert Pinsky Poems)
'. . . our language, forged in the dark bycenturies of violentpressure, underground,out of the stuff of dead life.'Thirsty and ...
To A Drop Of Dew. (Henry Alford Poems)
Sun--begotten, ocean--born, Sparkling in the summer morn Underneath me as I pass O'er the hill--top on the grass, All among thy fellow--drops On the speary ...
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. (June Jordan Poems)
Ihoney people murder mercy U.S.A.the milkland turn to monsters teachto kill to violate pull down destroythe weakly freedom growing fruitfrom ...
4th July 1882, Malines. Midnight (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
Belgian, with cumbrous tread and iron boots, Who in the murky middle of the night, Designing to renew the foul pursuits In which ...
Sealers and Whalers (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Scud sprinted blind, rigging shrill aloftrumoured miles for kelson's haul or fellgale rang wicked an eighth bell their knellthey feared. ...
Reticence (Jewell Miller Poems)
When all the sun-kissed ways are darkAnd silence reigns where laughter ruled,Walk in the silent ways apart ...And by much ...
A Modern Apostle V (Constance Naden Poems)
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
A life-day (George Boyer Vashon Poems)
MORNINGThe breeze awakes with morn's first ray,Like childhood roused from sleep to play;The sunshine, like a fairy sprite,Comes to undo ...
The House (Anne Sexton Poems)
In dreams the same bad dream goes on. Like some gigantic German toy the house has been rebuilt upon its ...
The Dancers: (During A Great Battle, 1916) (Dame Edith Sitwell Poems)
The floors are slippery with blood:The world gyrates too. God is goodThat while His wind blows out the lightFor those ...
HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY (Robert Herrick Poem)
HERE, Here I live with what my board Can with the smallest cost afford; Though ne'er so mean the viands ...
The Hawk and the Babe (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
The Hawk and the Babe (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
For Bartleby The Scrivener (Billy Collins Poem)
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
A Far Cry From Africa (Derek Walcott Poems)
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. ...
A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
The Whistling Girl (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Back of my back, they talk of me, Gabble and honk and hiss; Let them batten, and let them be- ...