The Shepherds Calendar – July (John Clare Poems)
Daughter of pastoral smells and sightsAnd sultry days and dewy nightsJuly resumes her yearly placeWi her milking maiden faceRuddy and ...
Poems about crumpling (15 Poems)
The Natural History Of Elephants (Milton Acorn Poems)
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...
Bums On Waking (James Dickey Poems)
Bums, on waking,Do not always find themselvesIn gutters with water running over their legsAnd the pillow of the curbstoneTurning hard ...
The Near-Johannesburg Boy (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
My way is from woe to wonder.A Black boy near Johannesburg, hot in the Hot Time.Those people do not like ...
Dream Song 56: Hell is empty. O that has come to pass (John Berryman Poems)
Hell is empty. O that has come to passwhich the cut Alexandrian foresaw,and Hell is empty.Lightning fell silent where the ...
Einstein (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
"Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ...
Roundel (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Oh boy of mine, spread-eagled on your bed,Whose is the see-er eye that might divineThe fate that forms around your ...
O (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
"Old women look intently at Nothing when the doctor announces a cancer, dark fruit, under the shrunk left breast.Girls' hands ...
The Self-Seeker (Robert Frost Poem)
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
The Winter’s Spring (John Clare Poems)
The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no bird to sing; To those who keep their hearts their own ...
Dream Song 56: Hell is empty. O that has come to pass (John Berryman Poem)
Hell is empty. O that has come to pass which the cut Alexandrian foresaw, and Hell is empty. Lightning fell ...
Implications of One Plus One (Marge Piercy Poems)
Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging, continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten veins of fire deep in the earth ...
THE APPOINTMENT (Ruth Padel Poems)
Flamingo silk. New ruff, the ivory ghost of a halter. Chestnut curls, * commas behind the ear. "Taller, by half ...
FIRST LETTER (Vlanes Poems)
We crossed to the other side, the burgee of the boat ceased flapping and lagged behind like a dead wing. ...
Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye (Thomas Moore Poems)
Lesbia hath a beaming eye, But no one knows for whom it beameth; Right and left its arrows fly, But ...