The Grocery (Amy Lowell Poem)
"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your ...
Poems about clumsy (31 Poems)
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Stupidity (Amy Lowell Poem)
Dearest, forgive that with my clumsy touch I broke and bruised your rose. I hardly could suppose It were a ...
The Intruder (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
Delicatessen (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams (Kenneth Koch Poem)
1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
A Ballad of Jakkko Hill (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
One moment bid the horses wait, Since tiffin is not laid till three, Below the upward path and straight You ...
My Tenants (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
I never had a title-deed To my estate. But little heed Eyes give to me, when I walk by My ...
The House In The Woods (Randall Jarrell Poem)
At the back of the houses there is the wood. While there is a leaf of summer left, the wood ...
The Boy (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I. A MASTER of a country school Jump'd up one day from off his stool, Inspired with firm resolve to ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
A Moment of Witness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
Oh Yeah, and I raised him from the dead (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A travelogue of a busy apostle forgetting to mention what would seem a significant moment a resurrection, after all doesn't ...
My Memo 1 Sucks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wow, I found a thesis sentence In my title above. A clear and concise position I can support Here, there, ...
Menacing Insects (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A big fat black dirigible of a fly careening around the office buzzed me, like a test pilot and the ...
In the Home Stretch (Robert Frost Poem)
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
Little Aggie (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Four Quartets 2: East Coker (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Within my Garden, rides a Bird (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel -- Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As 'twere a ...
On The Death of a Father (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
Lethargy of leaden wings (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
It is a secular world (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
Hexameters (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
Time’s Revenges (Robert Browning Poems)
I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books ...
The Rock and The Bubble (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Oh! a bare, brown rock Stood up in the sea, The waves at its feet Dancing merrily. A little bubble ...
What Kind Of A Person (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me. I'm a person with a complex plumbing ...