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 ...
Poems about classic (31 Poems)
At Grass (Philip Larkin Poem)
The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
DRINKING SONG (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE PITCHER Come, old friend! sit down and listen! From the pitcher, placed between us, How the ...
The Trade (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl (John Keats Poem)
Fill for me a brimming bowl And in it let me drown my soul: But put therein some drug, designed ...
Ode To A Dressmaker’s Dummy (Donald Justice Poems)
Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. -- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue O my coy darling, still You ...
Twice Shy (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Her scarf a la Bardot, In suede flats for the walk, She came with me one evening For air and ...
Genoa and the Mediterranean. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea, Heave careless of the deep wrong done to thee When from Torino's track I saw ...
To Flowers From Italy in Winter (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Sunned in the South, and here to-day; --If all organic things Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say, What are ...
To an Ungentle Critic (Robert Graves Poem)
The great sun sinks behind the town Through a red mist of Volnay wine.... But what's the use of setting ...
Free Verse (Robert Graves Poem)
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
A Reflection in the Chrome (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The blues, purples, yellow, gold baked into the chrome pipes of the classic Harley draw me to you, my camera, ...
The Truth About hHorace (Eugene Field Poem)
It is very aggravating To hear the solemn prating Of the fossils who are stating That old Horace was a ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
No conscience in escape (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Should you be allowed sole privilege of unconscionable martyrdom? This affliction is self-pity brought by suffering as penitent to unrequited ...
Christmas (John Betjeman Poem)
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
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 Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
343. Address to the shade of Thomson (Robert Burns Poem)
WHILE virgin Spring by Eden's flood, Unfolds her tender mantle green, Or pranks the sod in frolic mood, Or tunes ...
North Haven (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
I can make out the rigging of a schooner a mile off; I can count the new cones on the ...
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
92. Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision” (Robert Burns Poems)
WITH secret throes I marked that earth, That cottage, witness of my birth; And near I saw, bold issuing forth ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
To Helen 1 (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicæan barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, ...
On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament (John Milton Poems)
Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord, And with stiff Vowes renounc'd his Liturgie To seise the widdow'd whore ...
An Ancient Gesture (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than ...