The Bush Veteran (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Parraday, he toddles up the road,"Dangin'" things and "darn in'" things and hefting of his load For yesterday ...
Poems about discreetly (21 Poems)
To A Dancing Doll (Donald Marquis Poems)
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
Enquiry After Peace (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
PEACE! where art thou to be found? Where, in all the spacious Round, May thy Footsteps be pursu'd? Where may ...
Nine Years (A P Herbert Poems)
'Old and effete—this Parliament!' they cried,The laughing lads who stand about outside(Though now they ask the object of their mirthTo ...
For Jaime Sabines (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Even God has called it a day.The streets of Tuxtla are emptylike the bottles of white rumafter the party.Crickets hum ...
Sonnet CCLXI: “She on the jealous gods’ Olympian hill” (George Henry Boker Poems)
She on the jealous gods' Olympian hill, Unrecognized as mortal, might have taken The nectar cup from Hebe's hand unshaken, ...
Sonnet CLXVIII: “If I were able to disclose thy charms” (George Henry Boker Poems)
If I were able to disclose thy charms, And truly paint, as they appear to me, Those latent beauties I ...
To Guido Cavalcanti (Dante Alighieri Poems)
Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and Icould board a vessel, by transporter beam,that sailed by will alone, wherever seemeddesirable ...
The Little Clock (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Half-past-four and the first bird waking,Falling on my heart like a thin green leaf.If you are alive, your heart is ...
Drunk (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
Too far away, oh love, I know, To save me from this haunted road, Whose lofty roses break and blow ...
Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
I know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a ...
THE CONSECRATED SPOT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WHEN in the dance of the Nymphs, in the moonlight so holy assembled, Mingle the Graces, down from Olympus in ...
Thoreau in Italy (Robert Francis Poem)
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants- they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons. He thought ...
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man (John Betjeman Poem)
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
96. The Inventory (Robert Burns Poem)
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Pedlar (Robert William Service Poems)
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
The Growth of Lorraine (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I While I stood listening, discreetly dumb, Lorraine was having the last word with me: "I know," she said, "I ...
Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees ...
Dilemma (Dorothy Parker Poems)
If I were mild, and I were sweet, And laid my heart before your feet, And took my dearest thoughts ...