The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Poems about bolts (31 Poems)
TO THE DRIVING CLOUD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas; Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name ...
A Boy Scouts’Patrol Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
1913 These are our regulations-- There's just one law for the Scout And the first and the last, and the ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poem)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart (Jack Gilbert Poem)
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, ...
His Shop (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There was something about it the way he had things just so, from the start a level, freshly cut boards ...
Two Fish (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Two fish Under the spell Of the fisherman. One in the bucket One on the line, Hook deep into flesh. ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Man Bitten By Fleas (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
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, ...
The Haunted Oak (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through ...
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted -- One need not be a House -- The Brain ...
We never know we go when we are going — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We never know we go when we are going -- We jest and shut the Door -- Fate -- following ...
I would not paint — a picture — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I would not paint -- a picture -- I'd rather be the One Its bright impossibility To dwell -- delicious ...
Hohenlinden (Thomas Campbell Poem)
1 On Linden, when the sun was low, 2 All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, 3 And dark as winter ...
Destiny (Gregory Corso Poem)
They deliver the edicts of God without delay And are exempt from apprehension from detention And with their God-given Petasus, ...
The Vixen (John Clare Poem)
Among the taller wood with ivy hung, The old fox plays and dances round her young. She snuffs and barks ...
Prisoner, The – (A Fragment) (Emily Bronte Poem)
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape (John Ashbery Poem)
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment, From ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
Interior (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And ...
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Soul O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise A Soul inslav'd so many wayes? With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd ...
Henry Phipps (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Fletcher McGee (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
Apostrophe (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Of RISPAH. (who had been the concubine of King SAUL) when DAVID hanged her children, because their father had done ...
SCARECROW CRIMES (John Lindley Poems)
In Hayfield I imagine not just the nuts and bolts of split cockpits but a Spitfire's sunk fuselage has smoked ...
Where We Live Now (Philip Levine Poems)
1 We live here because the houses are clean, the lawns run right to the street and the streets run ...