A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Poems about bites (31 Poems)
To a Fish (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea, Gulping salt-water everlastingly, Cold-blooded, though with red your blood be ...
A Farewell to Agassiz (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Phallus (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
This was the gods' god, The leashed divinity, Divine divining rod And Me within the me. By mindlight tower and ...
A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON (Robert Herrick Poem)
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Tractor (Ted Hughes Poem)
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
Lovesong (Ted Hughes Poem)
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He ...
A Can of Cat Food (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So seriously, so purposely saying the words, fulfilling them as well "In this house, in this kitchen, the first ingredient ...
Saturated Red (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wet red blooms catching the sunlight drinking in the color, overwhelm the senses rich smooth velvety red crimson flowers bursting ...
Parsed Playtime (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Time measured and metered codified and labeled between clients and general practice work, in tenths of an hour little by ...
Negotiating (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Negotiating, drafting a compromise, agreement meeting of the minds hand-written and informal tweaking the formal the proposed, the typed the ...
Swains (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Life is simple. In my canoe. Strokes in the water propel me forward. I chart my course around the cove. ...
Buzz (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Buzz In my ear Behind my glasses In my mouth. Landing on my arm, neck, face, clothes Oh, let me ...
Cock Fight (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sweat and avarice Were pungent under The cloud of dust From the pit Arms beat in the air Voices raised ...
Bringing Word (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They are working in his vineyard Bringing Word, his word a good news, a gospel to the masses, the sheep ...
Curse of the Cat Woman (Edward Field Poem)
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Badger (John Clare Poem)
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
YARNER (Graham Burchell Poem)
A place of dryad and hamadryad, there are eyes here by the million. Many divert to watch me. Threatened, they ...
The Burning of the Leaves (Laurence Binyon Poem)
Now is the time for the burning of the leaves, They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke ...
Mack The Knife (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
The Englishman In Italy (Robert Browning Poem)
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
507. Song-Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay (Robert Burns Poem)
CAULD is the e'enin blast, O' Boreas o'er the pool, An' dawin' it is dreary, When birks are bare at ...
Night: San Francisco (Deborah Ager Poem)
Rain drenches the patio stones. All night was spent waiting for an earthquake, and instead water stains sand with its ...
55. The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie (Robert Burns Poems)
O A' ye pious godly flocks, Weel fed on pastures orthodox, Wha now will keep you frae the fox, Or ...