Knocked Up (Henry Lawson Poem)
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or ...
Poems about crime (31 Poems)
Justice (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
October, 1918 Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides ...
Cleared (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
Prospects (Anthony Hecht Poem)
We have set out from here for the sublime Pastures of summer shade and mountain stream; I have no doubt ...
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
handyman (Rg Gregory Poem)
the two hands of me make inimical gestures that only long after betray the one tune though they have the ...
thirteeners (Rg Gregory Poem)
18 if you want a revolution attack symbols not systems - the simple forms that (blithely) give the truth away ...
AN ODE TO MY JAILED FRIEND (Godfrey Mutiso Gorry Poem)
Unmasked - The spirits' face is a black hole Swallowing the celestial beauty Of the stars. Caged - The sentinel ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Losing Focus (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Walking with Christ and yet losing focus wanting divine wrath for a minor crime The disciples asking for holy fire ...
The Park (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The prosperous and beautiful To me seem not to wear The yoke of conscience masterful, Which galls me everywhere. I ...
Frederick Douglass (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
Your Voices Joined Is All It Takes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
Free from intrusion (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
Does the name toll a bell? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Pater Filio (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Sense with keenest edge unusèd, Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire; Lovely feet as yet unbruisèd On the ways of dark ...
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 ...
Honour’s Martyr (Emily Bronte Poems)
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
The Prisoner of Chillon (Lord Byron Poem)
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
Dream Song 95: The surly cop looked out at me in sleep (John Berryman Poem)
The surly cop looked out at me in sleep insect-like. Guess, who was the insect. I'd asked him in my ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret (Conrad Aiken Poem)
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
A Curse For A Nation (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
Be Kind (Charles Bukowski Poems)
we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked ...
Death Wants More Death (Charles Bukowski Poems)
death wants more death, and its webs are full: I remember my father's garage, how child-like I would brush the ...
The Leaden-Eyed (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the ...
Nirvana (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies, Through seas of solitudes and vacancies, And through my Self, the deepest ...
Street Cries (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...