The Dinner-Party (Amy Lowell Poem)
Fish "So . . ." they said, With their wine-glasses delicately poised, Mocking at the thing they cannot understand. "So ...
Poems about delicately (30 Poems)
Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
The fat lady came out first, tearing out roots and moistening drumskins. The fat lady who turns dying octopuses inside ...
To Certain Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
Houses (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) When you shall die and to the sky Serenely, delicately go, Saint Peter, when he sees you there, ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Death Of A Naturalist (Seamus Heaney Poem)
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted ...
The Last Chrysanthemum (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Why should this flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes? Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, When ...
The Thought-Fox (Ted Hughes Poem)
I imagine this midnight moment's forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock's loneliness And this blank page where my ...
Snow Coming Down (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The snow, coming down falling like flour, like confectionary sugar from a giant sifter in the sky falling so delicately ...
Touching Her Face (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like gloved hands at the summer cotillion so were the petals of the sun touching her face, oh so delicately, ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Tu Fu Poem)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Middlesex (John Betjeman Poem)
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
The Lilies (Wendell Berry Poem)
Amid the gray trunks of ancient trees we found the gay woodland lilies nodding on their stems, frail and fair, ...
Road and Hills (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow (Conrad Aiken Poem)
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
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 ...
The Unicorn (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witness the unbelievable: for there before ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
A Certain Lady (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint ...
BROKEN CLAVECIN (Vlanes Poems)
for every wind?'s emotionless blast brings shreds of feathers with their dance of loss rotating leaves of faded rainbow-trees and ...
Topography (Sharon Olds Poems)
After we flew across the country we got in bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to ...
To A Sad Daughter (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats ...
Anseo (Paul Muldoon Poems)
When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo ...
The Sprig of Moss (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
The Opal Dream Cave (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
In an opal dream cave I found a fairy: Her wings were frailer than flower petals, Frailer far than snowflakes. ...
The Storm (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
I Ran to the forest for shelter, Breathless, half sobbing; I put my arms round a tree, Pillowed my head ...
William and Emily (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the ...
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...