The Snakes of September (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
All summer I heard them rustling in the shrubbery, outracing me from tier to tier in my garden, a whisper ...
Poems about braid (31 Poems)
The Song of the Old Guard (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Army Reform-.After Boer war "The Army of a Dream"-Traffics and Discoveries. Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear And all ...
The Fall of Jock Gillespie (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
The Two Streams (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides! ...
The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
(Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) THE LEADEN ECHO How to kéep-is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere ...
To make One’s Toilette — after Death (Emily Dickinson Poems)
To make One's Toilette -- after Death Has made the Toilette cool Of only Taste we cared to please Is ...
The Obesion (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Snake (John Burnside Poem)
As cats bring their smiling mouse-kills and hypnotised birds, slinking home under the light of a summer's morning to offer ...
Spring in Town (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
A Song of Pitcairn’s Island (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
10. The Ronalds of the Bennals (Robert Burns Poem)
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
226. Song-I hae a Wife o’ my Ain (Robert Burns Poems)
I HAE a wife of my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody; I'll take Cuckold frae nane, I'll gie Cuckold to ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow (Conrad Aiken Poem)
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer (Robert Burns Poems)
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
62. Epistle to William Simson (Robert Burns Poems)
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
141. Tam Samson’s Elegy (Robert Burns Poems)
HAS auld Kilmarnock seen the deil? Or great Mackinlay 1 thrawn his heel? Or Robertson 2 again grown weel, To ...
238. Song-Auld Lang Syne (Robert Burns Poems)
SHOULD auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! Chorus.-For ...
133. The Brigs of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Auld Lang Syne (Robert Burns Poems)
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? For ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
The Dictators (Pablo Neruda Poems)
An odor has remained among the sugarcane: a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating petal that brings nausea. Between ...
Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
SHALT thou be conquered of a human fate My liege, my lover, whose imperial head Hath never bent in sorrow ...
Promises, Promises (Paul Muldoon Poems)
I am stretched out under the lean-to Of an old tobacco-shed On a farm in North Carolina. A cardinal sings ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Where is the Slave (Thomas Moore Poems)
Oh, where's the slave so lowly, Condemn'd to chains unholy, Who, could he burst His bonds at first, Would pine ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...