St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
We who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street, Let us kneel and pray on ...
Poems about buttercup (21 Poems)
The Robe of Christ (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Silent Poem (Robert Francis Poem)
backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk ...
What shall I do when the Summer troubles — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What shall I do when the Summer troubles -- What, when the Rose is ripe -- What when the Eggs ...
The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The Robin's my Criterion for Tune -- Because I grow -- where Robins do -- But, were I Cuckoo born ...
Precious to Me — She still shall be — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Precious to Me -- She still shall be -- Though She forget the name I bear -- The fashion of ...
I’m saying every day (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...
He parts Himself — like Leaves — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He parts Himself -- like Leaves -- And then -- He closes up -- Then stands upon the Bonnet Of ...
A Lady red — amid the Hill (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Lady red -- amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Memory (Anne Bronte Poem)
Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky ...
Turns And Movies: Rose And Murray (Conrad Aiken Poem)
After the movie, when the lights come up, He takes her powdered hand behind the wings; She, all in yellow, ...
In a Spring Grove (William Allingham Poem)
Here the white-ray'd anemone is born, Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup; And primrose in its purfled green swathed up, Pallid ...
from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (William Carlos Williams Poems)
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem- save that it's green and wooden- I come, ...
The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many Hearts (Anne Sexton Poems)
Who's she, that one in your arms? She's the one I carried my bones to and built a house that ...
Anna Who Was Mad (Anne Sexton Poems)
Anna who was mad, I have a knife in my armpit. When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages. ...
The Addict (Anne Sexton Poems)
Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles I make arrangements ...
Sonnet XII (Alan Seeger Poems)
Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge, To a slow river ...
Lord Let Me Live (Robert William Service Poems)
Lord, let me live, that more and more Your wonder world I may adore; With every dawn to grow and ...
My Shadow (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
From Child's Garden of Verses I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can ...