Epic (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided, who owned That half a rood of rock, ...
Poems about defying (24 Poems)
Shots Fired in the Square (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The people scattering chaos in the peace innocents dying in their sleep shots fired in the square the thugs in ...
Seeing Eyes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
not blind faith, they acted with seeing eyes, perceiving understanding, at least in part what faith truly is believe not ...
Light Flakes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Light flakes, clusters of powder dancing in the air falling, defying gravity, swirling, spinning, rising puffed up by the side ...
Yellow Remaining (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Before the first snowfall long after frost covering layering the lawn, the gardens Yellow remaining newborn black-eyed Susan growing in ...
After the Frost (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Killing frost, limp dead petals; but pockets of color, of life remaining defying the date, the cold, the frost living ...
Above the Waves (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He stayed above the waves, above the waters of doubt while he stayed focused Christ, on the water himself Faith ...
Backing Up (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It happened a few times this morning trying to tell the whole story, or more of it anyway eager ears, ...
Leaps (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Of Faith, of Hope Define us, defying History For a future Together Stay with me on the Journey Love me ...
Curled (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A bit of nature's sculpture out in the northern woods a solitary beech leaf brown and curled around the stem ...
t of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Enter, as in the Temple of Jerusalem, ATHALIA, MATHAN, ABNER WHY, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen, ...
An Apology for my fearfull temper (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
Growing Apart (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We knew their names or thought we did, we knew their faces from an album of places we'd played in ...
Echoes in an empty room (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
THE HUDSON (Luis Benitez Poem)
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
Ka ‘Ba (Imamu Amiri Baraka Poems)
A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and black people call across or scream or walk across defying ...
High waving heather ‘neath stormy blasts bending (Emily Bronte Poems)
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending, Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars, Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending, Earth ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Roosters (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Ballad of Dead Friends (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
FIRST LETTER (Vlanes Poems)
We crossed to the other side, the burgee of the boat ceased flapping and lagged behind like a dead wing. ...