Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...
Poems about closing (51 Poems)
Post-Graduate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
Got a Match? (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh how to tell the tale to spin the yarn, to pull you in Bring you along, down memory road ...
The Pumpkin is Calling (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The coachman's at the door Checking his watch He knows the score, The sequence, the deadline Down the road Heeding ...
Spawned Salmon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Lost past exhaustion she floated, lapping the shore with the wind and tide Completed, her journey done, spent Returning to ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The Valley’s Singing Day (Robert Frost Poems)
The sound of the closing outside door was all. You made no sound in the grass with your footfall, As ...
The Housekeeper (Robert Frost Poem)
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
The Parting (Michael Drayton Poem)
SINCE there 's no help, come let us kiss and part-- Nay, I have done, you get no more of ...
Sonnet LXI: Since There’s No Help (Michael Drayton Poems)
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, ...
Broadway (Mark Doty Poem)
Under Grand Central's tattered vault --maybe half a dozen electric stars still lit-- one saxophone blew, and a sheer black ...
Song For Saint Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (John Dryden Poems)
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay And could ...
God of the Open Air (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
This is a Blossom of the Brain — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This is a Blossom of the Brain -- A small -- italic Seed Lodged by Design or Happening The Spirit ...
She hideth Her the last — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
She hideth Her the last -- And is the first, to rise -- Her Night doth hardly recompense The Closing ...
It was a quiet seeming Day — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It was a quiet seeming Day -- There was no harm in earth or sky -- Till with the closing ...
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart Upon the hither side Has Dowers of Prospective To Denizens denied Inquire of ...
Distrustful of the Gentian (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Distrustful of the Gentian -- And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy -- Weary ...
A great Hope fell (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And ...
Echoes in an empty room (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
The Current (Raymond Carver Poem)
These fish have no eyes these silver fish that come to me in dreams, scattering their roe and milt in ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
On a Beautiful Landscape (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife, And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. ...
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 ...
On a Dead Child (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! Though cold ...
Halls grew darker (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
Halls grew darker and somehow faded. Grates of windows drowned in black. Every knight, every beautiful lady Knew the tiding: ...
Mementos (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Evening Solace (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, ...