British Georgics. June (James Grahame Poems)
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature's works in placid stillness pause,--Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The ...
Poems about compost (21 Poems)
British Georgics. February (James Grahame Poems)
The long-piled mountain-snows at last dissolve,Bursting the roaring river's brittle bonds.Ponderous the fragments down the cataract shoot,And, buried in the ...
British Georgics. August (James Grahame Poems)
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
Mercian Hymns (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
IKing of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
Thoughts of New England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Cherrylog Road (James Dickey Poems)
Off Highway 106At Cherrylog Road I enteredThe '34 Ford without wheels,Smothered in kudzu,With a seat pulled out to runCorn whiskey ...
The Sangamon River (Hattie Howard Poems)
O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...
The Fly (Karl Shapiro Poems)
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,To populate the stinking cat you walkThe promontory ...
Semi-Centennial Celebration Of The New England Society (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 22, 1855NEW ENGLAND, we love thee; no time can eraseFrom the hearts of thy children the smile ...
Any Saint (Francis Thompson Poems)
His shoulder did I holdToo high that I, o'erbold Weak one, Should lean thereon.But He a little hathDeclined ...
Soul (Boris Pasternak Poems)
My mournful soul, you, sorrowingFor all my friends around,You have become the burial vaultOf all those hounded down.Devoting to their ...
The Round (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets ...
THE COUNTRY LIFE: (Robert Herrick Poem)
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY Sweet country life, to such unknown, Whose ...
When the Time is Ripe (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In God's time when the time is ripe even my submitting my turning to God's will all things part of ...
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 ...
Picnic, Lightning (Billy Collins Poem)
It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
This Compost. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I loved; I will ...
The Headliner And The Breadliner (Robert William Service Poems)
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
Sow (Sylvia Plath Poems)
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
Flowering Eucalypt In Autumn (Les Murray Poems)
That slim creek out of the sky the dried-blood western gum tree is all stir in its high reaches: its ...