The ‘Ole in the Ark (Marriott Edgar Poems)
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
Poems about check (51 Poems)
Dæmonic Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Ai (Denise Duhamel Poem)
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
A Runnable Stag (John Davidson Poem)
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
To Dan (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Ships that Pass in the Night (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
The Merchant of the Picturesque (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Merchant of the Picturesque A Counter has and sales But is within or negative Precisely as the calls -- ...
The Lightning playeth — all the while — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Lightning playeth -- all the while -- But when He singeth -- then -- Ourselves are conscious He exist ...
Pigmy seraphs — gone astray (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Pigmy seraphs -- gone astray -- Velvet people from Vevay -- Balles from some lost summer day -- Bees exclusive ...
Low at my problem bending, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Low at my problem bending, Another problem comes -- Larger than mine -- Serener -- Involving statelier sums. I check ...
In Ebon Box, when years have flown (Emily Dickinson Poem)
In Ebon Box, when years have flown To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there! To ...
A Prison gets to be a friend — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Prison gets to be a friend -- Between its Ponderous face And Ours -- a Kinsmanship express -- And ...
Before the ice is in the pools (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Before the ice is in the pools -- Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by ...
And you will claim (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
A Time to Weep (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I suppose you could call me heartless as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn, the damp wood too ...
The New Freethinker (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
The Death of Nicou (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
The Castaway (William Cowper Poem)
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
The Final Tax (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z: "What can we tax that is not paying? We're taxing every blessed thing- Here's ...
From On Being Fired Again (Erin Belieu Poem)
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
That’s What I Said (April Bernard Poems)
It pricks the arms like poison, knowing that some things, once chosen, are yours and that meanwhile the night comes ...
Self Communion (Anne Bronte Poem)
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Alexander And Zenobia (Anne Bronte Poem)
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
The Wife’s Will (Charlotte Bronte Poems)
SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...
Prisoner, The – (A Fragment) (Emily Bronte Poem)
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
A Death – Scene (Emily Bronte Poem)
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Remembrance (Emily Bronte Poem)
Cold in the earth-and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I ...