Festus – XXVIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In such timeAs it takes to turn a leaf, we are in heaven;Making our way among the wheeling worlds,Millions of ...
Poems about essentially (20 Poems)
History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
A Man Meets A Woman In The Street (Randall Jarrell Poems)
Under the separated leaves of shadeOf the gingko, that old treeThat has existed essentially unchangedLonger than any other living tree,I ...
Fountain of Never-Ceasing Grace (Augustus Montague Toplady Poems)
Fountain of never ceasing grace,Thy saints' exhaustless theme,Great object of immortal praise,Essentially supreme;We bless Thee for the glorious fruitsThine incarnation ...
The Valise (Paul Colinet Poems)
The valise is a female greyhound of the water-henfamily. Essentially transportable, she's distinguishedfrom the water-hen community by the fact that ...
The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Eigth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
Books (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The beings of the mind are not of clay; Essentially immortal, they createAnd multiply in us a brigher ray, And ...
Sacred Song Of Ancient Mexicans – XIII. (Daniel Garrison Brinton Poems)
_Ciuacoatl icuic._ 1. Quaui, quaui, quilaztla, coaeztica xayaualoc uiuiya quauiuitluitzalochpa chalima aueuetl ye colhoa. 2. Huiya tonaca, acxolma centla teumilco ...
The Anti-Socialist (C J Dennis Poems)
'Tis morn.An individualistic cockProclaims the fact.The dissipated cat sneaks home forlorn.'Tis time to get up and act!'Tis eight o'clock!The stern ...
The Bucolics (C J Dennis Poems)
Ladies and gentlemen: I take this opportunityTo introduce myself and mention that, much as we may deplore the fact, we ...
Idealism (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
YOURSELF most composite,Chequered with day and night,What secret thing are you? -Behold that sky of blue:All that you hear and ...
On A Painting By Patient B Of The Independence State Hospital For The Insane (Donald Justice Poems)
1 These seven houses have learned to face one another, But not at the expected angles. Those silly brown lumps, ...
Fountain of Never-Ceasin (Augustus Montague Toplady Poems)
Fountain of never ceasing grace,Thy saints' exhaustless theme,Great object of immortal praise,Essentially supreme;We bless Thee for the glorious fruitsThine incarnation ...
Of Such Simplicity (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You and me, the proof is there to see, our lives are held within the spell of great simplicity, we're ...
Executive (John Betjeman Poem)
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
The Black Art (Anne Sexton Poems)
A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; ...
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever (Les Murray Poems)
To go home and wear shorts forever in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate, adding a sweater when winter ...