Prophecy (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
Some day--I have signs--a mortal stormIs coming from the far north.Everywhere is the smell of corpses.The great killing begins.The lump ...
Poems about clawed (21 Poems)
In Memoriam Paul Celan (Edward Hirsch Poem)
Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, ...
Name of Horses (Donald Hall Poem)
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
Crow’s Fall (Ted Hughes Poems)
When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white. He decided it glared much too whitely. He decided ...
Pizza for Dinner (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On another night, the choice, the decision, would not seem so odd pizza for dinner, what could be wrong But, ...
Jessie (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
A Burdock — clawed my Gown (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Burdock -- clawed my Gown -- Not Burdock's -- blame -- But mine -- Who went too near The ...
The Twins (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
The Twins (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
I Remember Galileo (Gerald Stern Poems)
I remember Galileo describing the mind as a piece of paper blown around by the wind, and I loved the ...
Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait (Dylan Thomas Poems)
The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue ...
I, In My Intricate Image (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, Forged in man's minerals, the brassy orator Laying my ghost ...
Haunted (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
The Troops (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots ...
Kittens (Robert William Service Poems)
A ray of sun strayed softly round, For something to caress, Until a resting place it found Of joy and ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
God (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
Apprehensions (Sylvia Plath Poems)
There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself -- Infinite, green, utterly untouchable. Angels swim in it, ...
Central Park Violence (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...