Delicatessen (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
Poems about desperately (30 Poems)
The Science Of The Night (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
By Their Works (Bob Hicok Poem)
Who cleaned up the Last Supper? These would be my people. Maybe hung over, wanting desperately a better job, standing ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
He Never Expected Much (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be ...
temporising with the eternal (Rg Gregory Poem)
i don't know what you're up to yet but for me you wouldn't exist (not on this page anyway - ...
(i) the inkman (Rg Gregory Poem)
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
A Poet’s Voice XV (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Gets Up Off His Thrown (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
When my God gets up off His thrown, He'll hear my voice and I won't be alone. All the pain ...
Come to the Stable (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Come to the stable you pilgrims you believers, needing to be reborn needing to be affirmed in your faith needing ...
Researching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Above the noise in the room below the sound of the television, the game, the laughter of our five-year old ...
Justice Amidst the Process (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hearing her words, her voice anguished, tired, spent, seeking justice, from her view unification with her babies, her grandchildren, caught ...
Boot in einer Flasche (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Okay, for those who don't speak German, the title of the poem is "A Boat in a Bottle" and that's ...
The Shark’s Parlor (James Dickey Poems)
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
Long Long Ago (Robert Desnos Poem)
Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Yellowing slowly in the moss And far away barnacles clung ...
Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
Does the name toll a bell? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
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 ...
Finding (Rupert Brooke Poem)
From the candles and dumb shadows, And the house where love had died, I stole to the vast moonlight And ...
Cirque D’Hiver (Elizabeth Bishop Poems)
Across the floor flits the mechanical toy, fit for a king of several centuries back. A little circus horse with ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema (Conrad Aiken Poem)
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
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 ...
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (Christina Rossetti Poems)
1 Lo d? che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci! - ...
EIGHT EPITAPHS (Vlanes Poems)
I. You liked your scrolls ? - Here they are. The manuscript of your book ? - Here it is. ...
The Unborn (Sharon Olds Poems)
Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads, Like gnats around a streetlight in summer, The children we could have, ...
Bill Bowls the Sailor (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas about the beginning of the present century, Bill Bowls was pressed, and sent to sea; And conveyed on board ...
The Capture of Lucknow (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
The Death of Captain Ward (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
The Character Of Holland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...