Japan -Nagasaki (Henry Jean-Marie Levet Poems)
To Auguste BrunetThe city has closed its many colored eyesAnd shushed its clowns, gongs and tam-tams;On the calm water the ...
Poems about departures (15 Poems)
Crossroads (Mary Barnard Poems)
Rotting in the wet gray airthe railroad depot stands deserted understill green trees. In the fieldscold begins an end.There were ...
In The Canyon (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"This is her diary. Come with me to viewThe canyon; think you see it as of oldWhen Martha lived, and ...
Anniversary Hymn (David John Scott Poems)
The ever rolling flood of years,Is bearing us, our hopes and fears,With all we are or crave,Into that fathomless abyss—A ...
Music (Boris Pasternak Poems)
The block of flats loomed towerlike.Two sweating athletes, human telpher,Were carrying up narrow stairs,As though a bell onto a belfry,As ...
Station Dog (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
the spirit of the placelives inside the mangy bodyof the station dogdoing penance for the last three hundred years underthe ...
After The Last Dynasty (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Reading in Li Po how "the peach blossom follows the water" I keep thinking of you because you were so ...
UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES (Robert Herrick Poem)
I have lost, and lately, these Many dainty mistresses:-- Stately Julia, prime of all; Sapho next, a principal: Smooth Anthea, ...
Dutch Mistress (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals. With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain strokes what's left ...
IN THE SMALL HOURS (Wole Soyinka Poems)
Blue diaphane, tobacco smoke Serpentine on wet film and wood glaze, Mutes chrome, wreathes velvet drapes, Dims the cave of ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Meditation By The Stove (Linda Pastan Poems)
I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
Tristia (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
I have studied the Science of departures, in night's sorrows, when a woman's hair falls down. The oxen chew, there's ...
The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of ...