Important Moments (Jared Barhite Poems)
There are times when the fate of nations May hang on a moment's call; When spheres in their mute rotations May swing on ...
Poems about bristle (21 Poems)
The Manlet (Lewis Carroll Poems)
In stature the Manlet was dwarfishNo burly, big Blunderbore he;And he wearily gazed on the crawfishHis Wifelet had dressed for ...
The Alphabet (Karl Shapiro Poems)
The letters of the Jews as strict as flamesOr little terrible flowers leanStubbornly upwards through the perfect ages,Singing through solid ...
A Shopkeeper’s Story (Bob Hicok Poems)
I sell one bristle brushes. Peopleseeking two bristle brushes I sendto the guy on Amsterdam, who's in a rush.I may ...
Goalie (Todd R. Nelson Poems)
The lightening limbs of goalie KnightThrust left. strike right; they block the sightOf these inferior, tepid playersWhose slapshots speed but ...
Andante (Jonas Aistis Poems)
Swollen waters rustle,Pour onto shore, -The crystal skylarkVibrates heaven's vault...And black birch twigsBristle with budsAnd nightingale songsGush through the night... ...
In The Canyon (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"This is her diary. Come with me to viewThe canyon; think you see it as of oldWhen Martha lived, and ...
The May Term (E W Bowling Poems)
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
Old Tom of Bedlam (Anonymous British Poems)
Forth from my sad and darksome cell, Or from the deepe abysse of hell,Mad Tom is come into the world ...
The Banded (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"Who are the banded? Gather from the fourBroad winds one hundred strangers varyingIn tongue, age, disposition; set them downOn the ...
The Song Of Courtesy (George Meredith Poems)
I When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal-bed, By Arthur's knights in scorn God-sped:- How think you he felt? ...
The Chip On Your Shoulder (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
You'll learn when you're older, that chip on your shoulderWhich you dare other boys to upsetAnd stand up and fight ...
Just Whistle (Frank Lebby Stanton Poems)
When times are bad an' folks are sad An' gloomy day by day, Jest try your best at lookin' ...
Harbor Tug (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
With saucy air and curtly hail;With rakish stern and meager crew,They bristle up beneath the rail,And warp the giant liners ...
THE GERMAN PARNASSUS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
The Saddhu Of Couva (Derek Walcott Poems)
When sunset, a brass gong, vibrate through Couva, is then I see my soul, swiftly unsheathed, like a white cattle ...
The Sightless Man (Robert William Service Poems)
Out of the night a crash, A roar, a rampart of light; A flame that leaped like a lash, Searing ...
What Are Big Girls Made Of? (Marge Piercy Poems)
The construction of a woman: a woman is not made of flesh of bone and sinew belly and breasts, elbows ...
Goatsucker (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear The warning whirr and burring of the bird Who wakes with ...
Ode To an Artichoke (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...