The Foreigner (Amy Lowell Poem)
Have at you, you Devils! My back's to this tree, For you're nothing so nice That the hind-side of me ...
Poems about carve (31 Poems)
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, ...
How Robin and His Outlaws Lived in The Woods (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
Robin and his merry men : Lived just like the birds; They had almost as many tracks as thoughts, : ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Poem (Halleck monument dedication) (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
SAY not the Poet dies! Though in the dust he lies, He cannot forfeit his melodious breath, Unsphered by envious ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING (Robert Herrick Poem)
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
The Church-Builder (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
sacked (Rg Gregory Poem)
fog owns the town in its palm lawyers nibble each other's fingers the churches take their cut at the fat ...
The Swimmer (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
Laws XIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet ...
Knocking Down Barriers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
With God's visions, his guidance the early saints, the patriarchs of the new way saw the barriers knocked down, the ...
Boot in einer Flasche (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Okay, for those who don't speak German, the title of the poem is "A Boat in a Bottle" and that's ...
Apple-Pie and Cheese (Eugene Field Poem)
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to such strange ...
The Critick and the Writer of Fables (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
War Song (John Davidson Poem)
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
From Citron-Bower (Hilda Doolittle Poem)
From citron-bower be her bed, cut from branch of tree a-flower, fashioned for her maidenhead. From Lydian apples, sweet of ...
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 ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
GARAGE SALE (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
I sold her bed for a song. A song of yearning like an orphan's. Or the one knives carve into ...
thought for Thursday (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
Tomorrow's Thursday again, swept with the days' meandering flow: this, that, and the week goes, hearing time splash through cracks. ...
Opifex (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
As I was carving images from clouds, And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes Pressed from the pulp of dreams, ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
TO A MADONNA (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
MADONNA, mistress, I would build for thee An altar deep in the sad soul of me; And in the darkest ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
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, ...
The Carver (Conrad Aiken Poem)
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...