The Piano (Notebook Version) (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
Somewhere beneath that piano's superb sleek black Must hide my mother's piano, little and brown with the back That stood ...
Poems about devoured (31 Poems)
A Tale of Starvation (Amy Lowell Poem)
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
The Ruins Of Time (Robert Lowell Poem)
(Quevedo, Mire los muros de la partia mia and Buscas en Roma a Roma, (!)O peregrino!) I I saw the ...
The Ghosts (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
Sacrifices (Richard Jones Poem)
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened ...
Faithless Nelly Gray (Thomas Hood Poem)
A Pathetic Ballad Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his ...
The Grizzly Bear (A. E. Housman Poem)
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild It has devoured the little child. The little child is unaware It has ...
The Alligator Bride (Donald Hall Poem)
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
your tiger (Rg Gregory Poem)
(in china it is symbolic of darkness and the new moon) in your night's hollow the tiger stalks black grasses ...
The Farmers Seed (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
The farmer lies wide awake at night, In his heart is filled with a fright. Tomorrow he will plant his ...
Pizza for Dinner (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On another night, the choice, the decision, would not seem so odd pizza for dinner, what could be wrong But, ...
Baby Raptors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Little vultures, circling over their fresh prey waiting not so patiently, swooping down and back, because they weren't yet ready ...
Mr. Apollinax (T. S. Eliot Poem)
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
It Was Not Necessary To Study (Regina Derieva Poem)
It was not necessary to study the language of a strange country; anyway, it would be of no help. It ...
Of Tribulation, these are They (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Tribulation, these are They, Denoted by the White -- The Spangled Gowns, a lesser Rank Of Victors -- designate ...
When I Close My Eyes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
When I close my eyes I cannot reconstruct your face but the three-dimensional solidity or you bursts through the tissues ...
It was your first outing (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was your first outing, or more rightly, our first outing with you. We were as proud as new parents ...
Landscapes (Andree Chedid Poem)
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
The Higher Unity (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may ...
thought for Thursday (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
Tomorrow's Thursday again, swept with the days' meandering flow: this, that, and the week goes, hearing time splash through cracks. ...
Landscapes (John Burnside Poem)
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
Preludium to Europe (William Blake Poems)
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc, Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon; ...
Robert Southey Burke (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, You were ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
The True Encounter (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
"Wolf!" cried my cunning heart At every sheep it spied, And roused the countryside. "Wolf! Wolf!"-and up would start Good ...
Robert Davidson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded ...
Washington McNeely (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens, The father of many children, born of a noble mother, All raised there In ...
Alfred Moir (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, And rotted down by indifference And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones? Why, with ...