damsel flies (Rg Gregory Poem)
certain creatures it seems are never seen straight on - they occupy the corner of the eye once sensed (a ...
Poems about drag (31 Poems)
from Proverbs of Hell (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
TO BELINDA. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This song was also written for Lily. Goethe mentions, at the end of his Autobiography, that he overheard her singing ...
Babylon (Robert Graves Poem)
The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry ...
September On Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Waiting with Me (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We didn't really talk much a bit, on the waiting, the drag of time waiting till you awoke sitting, present ...
Time for the Fair (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cold in the air reminds me of the country fair the candied apple, the hot burnt sausage sub the ...
Willow Whips (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Snap of the willow whip chosen, just the right mix of thick branch, slender tip leave a few leaves at ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
A piteous plaint (Eugene Field Poem)
I cannot eat my porridge, I weary of my play; No longer can I sleep at night, No longer romp ...
Twenty-Pound Stone (Nick Flynn Poem)
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if offering my stomach, as ...
In the Home Stretch (Robert Frost Poem)
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton (Robert Frost Poem)
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
I Will Sing You One-O (Robert Frost Poem)
It was long I lay Awake that night Wishing that night Would name the hour And tell me whether To ...
The Day’s Ration (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
Back from the cordial Grave I drag thee (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Back from the cordial Grave I drag thee He shall not take thy Hand Nor put his spacious arm around ...
Fears In Solitude (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
Echoes (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Was eight years old, she said: Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread. ...
Winter Seascape (John Betjeman Poem)
The sea runs back against itself With scarcely time for breaking wave To cannonade a slatey shelf And thunder under ...
The Golf Walk (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Behold, my child, this touching scene, The golfer on the golfing-green; Pray mark his legs' uncanny swing, The golf-walk is ...
To Time (Lord Byron Poem)
Time! on whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag or fly, Whose tardy winter, fleeting spring, But drag or ...
Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring (John Berryman Poem)
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves ...
494. Song-Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Robert Burns Poem)
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows Around Eliza's dwelling; O mem'ry! spare the cruel thoes Within my bosom swelling. Condemn'd ...
Exchanging Hats (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Unfunny uncles who insist in trying on a lady's hat, --oh, even if the joke falls flat, we share your ...
A Letter From Li Po (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
The Cry Of The Children (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, ...