Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
Poems about beached (21 Poems)
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part II (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EARLY SUMMER _The cricket in the rose-bush hedge Sings by the vine-entangled gate; The slim moon slants a timid edge Of pearl through one ...
America Remembers (Paul Engle Poems)
HERE by this midland lake, the sand-shored waterThat pulses with no sea-tide heart, where the grainOf a nation pauses on ...
The Crystal Lithium (James Schuyler Poems)
The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the wind lifts it from a beachEve-shuttering, mixed with sand, or when ...
Bel Canto (Kenneth Koch Poems)
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...
To—- (James Russell Lowell Poems)
We, too, have autumns, when our leaves Drop loosely through the dampened air,When all our good seems bound in sheaves, And we ...
The “Alice Jean” (Robert Graves Poems)
One moonlit night a ship drove in, A ghost ship from the west,Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller, Like a mermaid ...
As the boundless main, (Ise Poems)
As the boundless main,As constant were your words to me, andAs shallow, so'Tis I, yes I, whoIs beached upon regret!(Ise)
With the Tide (Edith Wharton Poems)
Somewhere I read, in an old book whose name Is gone from me, I read that when the days Of ...
Nevada (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Sphinx, down whose rugged face The sliding centuries their furrows cleave By sun and frost and cloud-burst; scarce ...
Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water (Allen Curnow Poems)
The typical tidal range, or difference in sea level between high and low tides, in the open ocean is about ...
The Rock In The Sea (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
Think of our blindness where the water burned! Are we so certain that those wings, returned And turning, we had ...
The English Flag (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
An Individual Sarcophagus of Snow (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like whales beached on the sand covered in the dunes each car, like an archaeological dig ancient Egypt a treasure ...
Last Poem of my 45th Year (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I thought of how a whale's white ribs could choke the sky's blue neck, massive vertebrae half-buried in sand, and ...
Siren Song (Margaret Atwood Poem)
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men ...
Codicil (Derek Walcott Poems)
Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles, one a hack's hired prose, I earn me exile. I trudge this sickle, moonlit beach ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
In the Smoking Car (Richard Wilbur Poems)
The eyelids meet. He'll catch a little nap. The grizzled, crew-cut head drops to his chest. It shakes above the ...
The Exorcists (Anne Sexton Poems)
And I solemnly swear on the chill of secrecy that I know you not, this room never, the swollen dress ...
The Bour-Tree Den (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
CLINKUM-CLANK in the rain they ride, Down by the braes and the grey sea-side; Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn, Weary ...