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, ...
Poems about digging (31 Poems)
The Cambaroora Star (Henry Lawson Poem)
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy ...
Cherry- Tree Inn (Henry Lawson Poem)
The rafters are open to sun, moon, and star, Thistles and nettles grow high in the bar -- The chimneys ...
Baby Lazarus (Jackie Kay Poem)
When I got home I went out into the garden Liking it when the frost bit My old brown boots ...
Fawn’s Foster-Mother (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels With her meagre pale demoralized daughter. Once when ...
Robin Hood’s Flight (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now, Has been gone from her earthly home; And Robin has paid, he scarce ...
Digging (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping ...
Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? -- planting rue?" -- "No: yesterday he went to wed ...
The Ruined Maid (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence ...
Pleasure XXIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure." And ...
Giving to the Spade (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The sod, the earth, willingly giving to the bite of my spade, soil rich wet loam, clean clear of rocks, ...
Snow Fort (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It all starts with the quality, the density, the size of the snow bank. True now, true forty years ago; ...
Richness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Vetted, checked, rechecked Branch on branch Dead ends and richness Teasing truths from the muck Seeing possibilities in hypothetical, Looping ...
The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
The Bonfire (Robert Frost Poem)
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain (Jim Carroll Poem)
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
The Old Song (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Harvest moon (Yosa Buson Poem)
Harvest moon-- called at his house, he was digging potatoes. (Yosa Buson)
Churchill’s Grave (Lord Byron Poems)
I stood beside the grave of him who blazed The comet of a season, and I saw The humblest of ...
Dream Song 91: Op. posth. no. 14 (John Berryman Poem)
Noises from underground made gibber some others collected & dug henry up saying 'You are a sight.' Chilly, he muttered ...
Nationality In Drinks (Robert Browning Poem)
I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond's black face for ...
Squatter’s Children (Elizabeth Bishop Poems)
On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The ...
The Seven Of Pentacles (Marge Piercy Poems)
Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like ...
Implications of One Plus One (Marge Piercy Poems)
Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging, continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten veins of fire deep in the earth ...
Investigating Flora (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
FIRST LETTER (Vlanes Poems)
We crossed to the other side, the burgee of the boat ceased flapping and lagged behind like a dead wing. ...
Intention To Escape From Him (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Intention To Escape From Him I think I will learn some beautiful language, useless for ...
Nyctivoe (extract) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...