Jim Crow: The Sequel (June Jordan Poems)
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
Poems about bedrooms (21 Poems)
What It Is To Be A Mother (John Hartley Poems)
A'a, dear! what a life has a mother! At leeast, if they're hamper'd like me,Thro' mornin' to neet ther's some bother, An' ...
Return (George Oppen Poems)
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
1918 (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Мчались звезды. В море мылись мысы.Слепла соль. И слезы высыхали.Были темны спальни. Мчались мысли,И прислушивался сфинкс к Сахаре.Плыли свечи. И ...
Last Sonnets At Paris (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I Chins that might serve the new Jerusalem; Streets footsore; minute whisking milliners, Dubbed graceful, but at whom one's eye ...
The Old Rectory (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
They are going to pull down the old rectory next year,So I hear,And put up an ugly little redBrick one ...
North Infinity Street (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
The alarm clocks tick in a thousand furnished rooms,tick and are wound for a thousand separate dooms;all down both sides ...
Stars were racing (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Stars were racing; waves were washing headlands.Salt went blind, and tears were slowly drying.Darkened were the bedrooms; thoughts were racing,And ...
Domicilium (Thomas Hardy Poem)
It faces west, and round the back and sides High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs, And sweep against ...
I Hardly Remember (Rafael Guillen Poem)
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
I Hardly Remember (Robert Graves Poem)
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
If You Only Knew (Robert Desnos Poem)
Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth, Far from me but ...
Tower Of Song (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play ...
Dinner at the Who’s Who (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems)
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
Million Man March Poem (Maya Angelou Poem)
The night has been long, The wound has been deep, The pit has been dark, And the walls have been ...
Prayer In Bad Weather (Charles Bukowski Poems)
by God, I don't know what to do. they're so nice to have around. they have a way of playing ...
Again (Marilyn L. Taylor Poems)
The children are back, the children are back- They've come to take refuge, exhale and unpack; The marriage has faltered, ...
A Little History (David Lehman Poems)
Some people find out they are Jews. They can't believe it. Thy had always hated Jews. As children they had ...
Maveric (Spike Milligan Poems)
Maveric Prowles Had Rumbling Bowles That thundered in the night. It shook the bedrooms all around And gave the folks ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
The Whole Soul (Philip Levine Poems)
Is it long as a noodle or fat as an egg? Is it lumpy like a potato or ringed like ...