The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Poems about exhaustion (21 Poems)
Hospital Duties (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Fold away all your bright-tinted dresses, Turn the key on your jewels today,And the wealth of your tendril-like tresses Braid ...
One Hour Ater The Dance Of Death (Franz Werfel Poems)
I lay in the abyss, where twisting squeezingThe lowest form of life pushed itself peristaltically.Where slippery and slimy worm and ...
Highway (Faiz Ahmed Faiz Poems)
A despondent highway is stretched,its eyes set on the far horizonOn the cold dirt of its bosom,its grayish beauty spreadAs ...
Wait (Galway Kinnell Poem)
Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to ...
eight roundels (Rg Gregory Poem)
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
Spawned Salmon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Lost past exhaustion she floated, lapping the shore with the wind and tide Completed, her journey done, spent Returning to ...
A Servant to Servants (Robert Frost Poem)
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
The Mountains — grow unnoticed — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Mountains -- grow unnoticed -- Their Purple figures rise Without attempt -- Exhaustion -- Assistance -- or Applause -- ...
Bombardment (Richard Aldington Poem)
Four days the earth was rent and torn By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared ...
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
Love Is Believable (Lisa Zaran Poems)
love is believable in every moment of exhaustion in every heartbroken home in every dark spirit, the meaning unfolds... ...in ...
Sonnet: The Ghosts Of James And Peirce In Harvard Yard (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
In memory of D. W. Prall The ghosts of James and Peirce in Harvard Yard At star-pierced midnight, after the ...
Bombardment (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Four days the earth was rent and torn By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared ...
Impossible To Tell (Robert Pinsky Poems)
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends ...
A Retrospect Of Humidity (Les Murray Poems)
All the air conditioners now slacken their hummed carrier wave. Once again we've served our three months with remissions in ...
Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
The Battle of Culloden (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
Clouds (Philip Levine Poems)
1 Dawn. First light tearing at the rough tongues of the zinnias, at the leaves of the just born. Today ...
Ode For Mrs. William Settle (Philip Levine Poems)
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...