Vergissmeinnicht (Keith Douglas Poem)
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Poems about cave (51 Poems)
Allegory Of The Cave (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He climbed toward the blinding light and when his eyes adjusted he looked down and could see his fellow prisoners ...
To my quick ear the Leaves — conferred — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To my quick ear the Leaves -- conferred -- The Bushes -- they were Bells -- I could not find ...
Heccar and Gaira (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
Narva and Mored (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
The Priestess of Panormita (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
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 ...
Colophon (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
The Priestess of Panormita (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
The Garden of Janus (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Colophon (Aleister Crowley Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen Poem)
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a ...
A Tombless Epitaph (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Love (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Winter Seascape (John Betjeman Poem)
The sea runs back against itself With scarcely time for breaking wave To cannonade a slatey shelf And thunder under ...
Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
Georgic on Memory (Erin Belieu Poem)
Make your daily monument the Ego, use a masochist's epistemology of shame and dog-eared certainty that others less exacting might ...
Medusa (Louise Bogan Poem)
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
Portrait of a Boy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
I Would I Were a Careless Child (Lord Byron Poem)
I would I were a careless child, Still dwelling in my highland cave, Or roaming through the dusky wild, Or ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Oh! Weep for Those (Lord Byron Poem)
I. Oh! Weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream, Weep for ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Prisoner of Chillon (Lord Byron Poem)
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
Dream Song 120: Foes I sniff, when I have less to shout (John Berryman Poem)
Foes I sniff, when I have less to shout or murmur. Pals alone enormous sounds downward & up bring real. ...
Dream Song 50: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post (John Berryman Poem)
In a motion of night they massed nearer my post. I hummed a short blues. When the stars went out ...
Dream Song 63: Bats have no bankers and they do not drink (John Berryman Poem)
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, ...
THE REMORSE OF THE DEAD (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
O SHADOWY Beauty mine, when thou shalt sleep In the deep heart of a black marble tomb; When thou for ...