A City Winter (Frank O Hara Poems)
1I understand the boredom of the clerksfatigue shifting like dunes within their eyesa frightful nausea gumming up the worksthat once ...
Poems about cruise (21 Poems)
The Nancy’s Pride (Bliss William Carman Poems)
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,To the flap of an idle sail,The Nancy's Pride went out on ...
With My Swag All On My Shoulder (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
When first I left Old England's shore,Such yarns as we were told,As how folks in AustraliaCould pick up lumps of ...
The Sailor’s Farewell To His Horse. (Billy Bennett Poems)
'Twas a dirty night, 'twas a dirty trickWhen our ship turned over in the AtlanticIt was the schooner Hesperous - ...
The Last Contention (George Meredith Poems)
IYoung captain of a crazy bark!O tameless heart in battered frame!Thy sailing orders have a mark,And hers is not the ...
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” (Robert Lowell Poem)
"It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ...
The Virginity (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose From his first love, no matter who she be. Oh, was ...
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Henry James in the Heart of the City (Erica Jong Poem)
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The ...
What Would Freud Say? (Bob Hicok Poem)
Wasn't on purpose that I drilled through my finger or the nurse laughed. She apologized three times and gave me ...
The Loss Of The Eurydice (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
THE WIDOWS’ TEARS; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
Phosphorescence (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Behind the cruise ship, in the wake a green phosphorescence bubbled and shimmered in the dark of night the white ...
The Child and the Mariner (William Henry Davies Poem)
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Consolation (Billy Collins Poem)
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
Poem of Joys. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
Now Finale to the Shore. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NOW finale to the shore! Now, land and life, finale, and farewell! Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is ...
The Double Image (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
The Trail Of Ninety-Eight (Robert William Service Poems)
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
Sow (Sylvia Plath Poems)
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...