Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Poems about demented (21 Poems)
Kocho (Ivan Vazov Poems)
(The Defence of Perushtitsa)O stirring of glory, O sombre sad stirring,Days of proud struggle, O days of adversity!Epic obscure and ...
A Sweltering Day In Australia (Mark Twain Poems)
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree,Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering firesFar from the breezes of CoolgardieBurn ghastly and blue ...
Libert (Paul Eluard Poems)
On my school notebooksOn my desk and on the treesOn the sands of snowI write your nameOn the pages I ...
Love and Lucre (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
Love and Lucre met one day,In chill November weather,And so, to wile the time away,They held discourse together.Love at first ...
Instructions (Maxwell Bodenheim Poems)
Call the moon a round scar leftBy a wound of self-discoveryUpon a mystery whose sleepProduces men and worlds.Say that sunlight ...
Letter to an Archaeologis (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, uttergarbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;a scalp so often scalded with boiling waterthat the puny brain ...
My Almost-Daughter, my Nearly-was Son (Chris Forhan Poems)
Those overtime nights in the ice factory, eyeing gauges, greasing gears: that's one thing. And the hours of clarinet lessons.All ...
The Wind (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Now, in his joy,A whistling Boy,Now, sombre and defiantHis every breathA threat of death,A blind, demented Giant. (John Bannister Tabb)
The Truant (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
The Nude Painting (Bich Khe Poems)
A curvaceous body in the To Nu painting.O goddess of beauty! 'T is hither that you reign?Where are you now? ...
Something (Francis W L Adams Poems)
It is something in this darker dream demented to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain: it is ...
The Minotaur (Ted Hughes Poem)
The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars ...
avalanche (Rg Gregory Poem)
all is still on this starless night the mountain waits quiescent as a cat smoothing crag and chasm to a ...
Rangipo Desert (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Letter to an Archaeologist (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
A Sweltering Day In Australia (Mark Twain Poems)
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree, Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires Far from the breezes of Coolgardie Burn ...
Still (Wislawa Szymborska Poems)
In sealed box cars travel names across the land, and how far they will travel so, and will they ever ...
The Ambush (Nimah Nawwab Poems)
He watched the old movie unfold, The head-covered man bashing his van into a building, Nodding his head: 'Yes another ...
Anthem For Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen Poems)
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid ...