Two Travellers in the Place Vendome (Amy Lowell Poem)
Reign of Louis Philippe A great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell ...
Poems about blinds (31 Poems)
Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The Fairies Break Their Dances (A. E. Housman Poem)
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn, And up from India glances The silver sail of dawn. ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
Underneath (9) (Jorie Graham Poem)
Spring Up, up you go, you must be introduced. You must learn belonging to (no-one) Drenched in the white veil ...
Angry, Like Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our anger, sometimes justified angry, like Christ in the face of injustice Turning our face, from the needs of others ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
Richard Minutolo (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
Preludes (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I THE WINTER evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Adolescence II (Rita Dove Poem)
Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-breasts are alert. Venetian ...
The Night was wide, and furnished scant (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star -- That often as a Cloud it met ...
The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
When Night Comes (Li Ching Chao Poem)
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings" When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo ...
Tz’u No. 18 (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune of "Intoxicated in the Shadow of Flowers" Thin mist, dense clouds, a grief-stricken day; auspicious incense burns ...
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Death In Leamington (John Betjeman Poem)
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev'ning star That shone through the plate glass window ...
The Healers (Laurence Binyon Poem)
In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. 'Mid the roar and the ...
Dream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need (John Berryman Poem)
Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need, thoughtless I go out. Dawn. Have I my cig's, my flaskie O, O ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
Aix In Provence (Robert Browning Poem)
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny (Conrad Aiken Poem)
1 Senlin sat before us and we heard him. He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him. Was ...
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 ...
Santa Fe In Winter (Deborah Ager Poem)
The city is closing for the night. Stores draw their blinds one by one, and it's dark again, save for ...
Mule Song (A. R. Ammons Poem)
Silver will lie where she lies sun-out, whatever turning the world does, longeared in her ashen, earless, floating world: indifferent ...
The Funeral of the German Emperor (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
Song of Karen, the Dancing Child (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
(O little white feet of mine) Out in the storm and the rain you fly; (Red, red shoes the colour ...