burnt Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Time for the Fair (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

The cold in the air reminds me of the country fair the candied apple, the hot burnt sausage sub the ...

Tastes of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Sweet maple syrup, bitter radish, salad greens Tart lemon, juicy fruits Sour rhubarb, creamy sauces Raw meat, flaky fish rich ...

Ashes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

A season coming marked by ashes, solemn gray, balck marks of a cross, a smudge, imprinted merging with oil, with ...

The Crash (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Clenched knuckles On my steering wheel A red light above me A black pickup - A wall before me No ...

Chatter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

A long time ago, when I was young, Back before I learned to respect the realities of heat exchange and ...

Ben apfelgarten (Eugene Field Poem)

There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he ...

The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forche Poem)

By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...

The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...

A Passing Glimpse (Robert Frost Poem)

To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His 'Hesperides' I often see flowers from a passing car That are gone ...

October (Robert Frost Poem)

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste ...

Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...

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, ...

Cassandra (Hilda Doolittle Poem)

O Hymen king. Hymen, O Hymen king, what bitter thing is this? what shaft, tearing my heart? what scar, what ...

Adonis (Hilda Doolittle Poem)

1. Each of us like you has died once, has passed through drift of wood-leaves, cracked and bent and tortured ...

Elegy VIII: The Comparison (John Donne Poem)

As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...

Elegy IV: The Perfume (John Donne Poem)

Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...

Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly (John Donne Poem)

I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...

Frogmouth biker (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...

Consciousness Of Our Return (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John (Thomas Carew Poems)

Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...

A Cruel Mistress. (Thomas Carew Poem)

We read of kings and gods that kindly took A pitcher fill'd with water from the brook ; But I ...

The Secret People (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord (Richard Crashaw Poem)

CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...

The Garden of Janus (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...

On – On – Poet (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...

The Garden of Janus (Aleister Crowley Poem)