Elegy IV (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?We are not of one mind. Are not like birdsin unison migrating. ...
Poems about drafts (21 Poems)
‘Bound for the Lord-Knows-Where’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Where are you going with your horse and bike, And the townsfolk still at rest?Where are you going, with your swag ...
Rouen (May Wedderburn Cannan Poems)
Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,And the dawn ...
To Calen D’Anvers, Esq; On The Treaty Lately Concluded At Seville (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Thou perverse, adverse, Caleb D' Anvers,Were I a Poet, to command Verse,With Satire, would I so ha--rass you,That you should ...
Loneliness (Ivan Bunin Poems)
The rain and the wind and the murkReign over cold desert of fall,Here, life's interrupted till spring;Till the spring, gardens ...
Paper Men To Air Hopes And Fears (Robert Francis Poems)
The first speaker saidFear fire. Fear furnacesIncinerators, the city dumpThe faint scratch of a match.The second speaker saidFear water. Fear ...
To Elizabeth Ray (Nora Pembroke Poems)
First of women, best of friendsTake what a village rhymer sends,A tear wet trifle sent to tellThe giver must bid ...
‘Twixt The Wings Of The Yard (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Hear the loud swell of it, mighty pell mell of it,Thousands of voices all blent into one:See "hell for leather" ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The Galley-Slave (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
Manteau Three (Jorie Graham Poem)
In the fairy tale the sky makes of itself a coat because it needs you to put it on. How ...
Paper Men To Air Hopes And Fears (Robert Francis Poem)
The first speaker said Fear fire. Fear furnaces Incinerators, the city dump The faint scratch of a match. The second ...
At Corfu (Norman Dubie Poem)
In seventeen hundred, a much hated sultan visited us twice, finally dying of headaches in the south harbor. Ever since, ...
The Worlds in this World (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
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 Bight (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and ...
Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes? We are not of one mind. Are not like birds in ...
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Song of the Moon (Claude McKay Poems)
The moonlight breaks upon the city's domes, And falls along cemented steel and stone, Upon the grayness of a million ...