The Cyclists (Amy Lowell Poem)
Spread on the roadway, With open-blown jackets, Like black, soaring pinions, They swoop down the hillside, The Cyclists. Seeming dark-plumaged ...
Poems about carrion (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 ...
The Old Issue (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
Contemplation Of The Sword (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
Carrion Comfort (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In ...
Thanking God in the Belly (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the time set apart pulled from his life Jonah thanking God in the belly of the fish There with ...
Our Lady Peace (Mark van Doren Poem)
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed, The solitary, sweating as he paused. Asphalt the noon; the ravens, ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The Hawk and the Babe (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
The Hawk and the Babe (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
Letter to an Archaeologist (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (Wendell Berry Poem)
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your ...
THE IRREPARABLE (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
AN we suppress the old Remorse Who bends our heart beneath his stroke, Who feeds, as worms feed on the ...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed’s Church (Robert Browning Poems)
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
The Ballad Of Lenin’s Tomb (Robert William Service Poems)
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
Adonais (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
Two Views Of A Cadaver Room (Sylvia Plath Poems)
(1) The day she visited the dissecting room They had four men laid out, black as burnt turkey, Already half ...
The Dying Of Pere Pierre (John McCrae Poems)
". . . with two other priests; the same night he died, and was buried by the shores of the ...
A Creed (John Masefield Poems)
I HOLD that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise Another mother ...