closer Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

A Wish (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

I wish it was Your face I awoke to This morning - Gentle and calm, Lost in a dream. To ...

Disciple (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Disciplined study And worship Immersed in the Word Week upon Week Words and meaning Beautiful in the learning and the ...

Sooner (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

The passing of every minute of the workday brings me ever closer to you once more. I long for the ...

The stork (Eugene Field Poem)

Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...

The Sugar-Plum Tree (Eugene Field Poem)

Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'T is a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore ...

The shut-eye train (Eugene Field Poem)

Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In your pretty ...

Hugo’s “flower to butterfly” (Eugene Field Poems)

Sweet, bide with me and let my love Be an enduring tether; Oh, wanton not from spot to spot, But ...

Poem For Maya (Carolyn Forche Poem)

Dipping our bread in oil tins we talked of morning peeling open our rooms to a moment of almonds, olives ...

Joe Ramsbottom (Marriott Edgar Poem)

Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...

Growltiger’s Last Stand (T. S. Eliot Poems)

GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...

Gerontion (T. S. Eliot Poem)

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...

A Green Crab’s Shell (Mark Doty Poems)

Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...

Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)

June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...

You’ll know Her — by Her Foot — (Emily Dickinson Poems)

You'll know Her -- by Her Foot -- The smallest Gamboge Hand With Fingers -- where the Toes should be ...

The Night was wide, and furnished scant (Emily Dickinson Poem)

The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star -- That often as a Cloud it met ...

Perhaps they do not go so far (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Perhaps they do not go so far As we who stay, suppose -- Perhaps come closer, for the lapse Of ...

Don’t put up my Thread and Needle — (Emily Dickinson Poems)

Don't put up my Thread and Needle -- I'll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle -- Better ...

I cannot live with You — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

I cannot live with You -- It would be Life -- And Life is over there -- Behind the Shelf ...

Hostel Beach, Oneroa (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

The cliff sprang from the sea at end of Hostel Beach, if the tide was out you'd reach a tiny ...

Dead man’s clothes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)

Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...

Consciousness Of Our Return (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...

Walking With God (William Cowper Poem)

(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...

The Neophyte (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...

Athor and Asar (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

On the black night, beneath the winter moon, I clothed me in ...

The Neophyte (Aleister Crowley Poem)