The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Poems about curve (31 Poems)
Poet’s Household (Carolyn Kizer Poems)
1 The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the ...
The Prairie (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand, I see a river loop and run ...
Cruisers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Love The Wild Swan (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
"I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or ...
Heredity (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And ...
Elegy For My Father (Annie Finch Poem)
HLF, August 8, 1918-August 22, 1997 "Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our ...
New Years (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are starting anew Tentative, cautious History between us Hope and skepticism mix Wax and wane But newness every time ...
Falls (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Back out into the wet woods Walking and hiking But always looking, watching, Searching for that one moment when the ...
Chasing La Luna (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Were we chasing her Or was she chasing us Down the road Under that starry starry night Lashed in the ...
The Testimony Of Light (Carolyn Forche Poem)
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything ...
A Soldier (Robert Frost Poem)
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies ...
Devotion (Robert Frost Poem)
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-- Holding the curve of one position, ...
The Soldier (Robert Frost Poem)
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies ...
The Empty Quatrain (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, ...
Out of sight? What of that? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird -- reach it! Curve by Curve -- Sweep by Sweep -- ...
The Ease and Charm of You (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There's an infinity of wisdom in your smile that would deny the winsome wit that lies at back of it; ...
Gimme ‘n F (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
"Gimme 'n F" the spruiker cried, "gimme a U" and crowd near died, they knew before he came to, Whatzat ...
To Brooklyn Bridge (Hart Crane Poem)
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
Dear Reader (Billy Collins Poem)
Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you ...
The First Dream (Billy Collins Poem)
The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight and as I lean against the door of sleep I begin to ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Snail Peels Off (D. C. Berry Poem)
For quick mental hygiene, the snail's my white mobile clinic, Dr. Hoodoo inside. Seriously. The snail's my man. He's shy, ...
A Passer-by (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea ...
Risus Dei (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
Day That I Have Loved (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited (Eavan Boland Poem)
-and not simply by the fact that this shading of forest cannot show the fragrance of balsam, the gloom of ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter (Conrad Aiken Poem)
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
Freedom (Charles Bukowski Poems)
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked ...