At Grass (Philip Larkin Poem)
The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; ...
Poems about distances (31 Poems)
Exiles (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
Lot’s Wife (Anthony Hecht Poems)
How simple the pleasures of those childhood days, Simple but filled with exquisite satisfactions. The iridescent labyrinth of the spider, ...
The Temper (George Herbert Poem)
How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel, If what my soul ...
The Farewell XXVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
We are Connected (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
One to another we are connected across boundaries, great distances bound by Christ's love even to those whom we will ...
Dust on the Pictures (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Memories fade, distances grow, dust builds on the pictures, the moment of our lives accumulate, separate our pasts from our ...
Waiting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Paneled walls, formal distances, raised dais bifurcated space, Hatfields and McCoys, bride and groom Peculiar pews, wide oak masculine pews, ...
The Hymn (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
This Bauble was preferred of Bees — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This Bauble was preferred of Bees -- By Butterflies admired At Heavenly -- Hopeless Distances -- Was justified of Bird ...
Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Here, where the Daisies fit my Head 'Tis easiest to lie And every Grass that plays outside Is sorry, some, ...
Because He loves Her (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Because He loves Her We will pry and see if she is fair What difference is on her Face From ...
A Word dropped careless on a Page (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie ...
Tales in the beginning (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Tales in the beginning didn't begin in the telling, they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete ...
The Visible, The Untrue (Hart Crane Poem)
Yes, I being the terrible puppet of my dreams, shall lavish this on you- the dense mine of the orchid, ...
Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen Poems)
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden ...
There was set before me a mighty hill (Stephen Crane Poem)
There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had ...
The Stranger (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
The Other Tiger (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
Bored (Margaret Atwood Poem)
All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string ...
Childhood (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those ...
Ariel (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God's lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of ...
Wuthering Heights (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The horizons ring me like faggots, Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, ...
A Day in the Open (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
Ho, a day Whereon we may up and away, With a fetterless wind that is out on the downs, And ...
Passing showers (John Matthew Poems)
Yesterday a passing, transient shower, Slaked my thirst so gently, softly, Showers in March are unheard - In this arid ...
To an Online Friend (John Matthew Poems)
May be the whole thing was a dream, Pinched myself awake this morn, To check if you are there, virtually, ...
Scholfield Huxley (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Vehicles (W. S. Merwin Poems)
This is a place on the way after the distances can no longer be kept straight here in this dark ...
Infinite (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening ...