The Strangest Creature On Earth (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
You're like a scorpion, my brother, you live in cowardly darkness like a scorpion. You're like a sparrow, my brother, ...
Poems about extinct (26 Poems)
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
By the Earth’s Corpse (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I "O Lord, why grievest Thou? - Since Life has ceased to be Upon this globe, now cold As lunar ...
The Two Men (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
Hymn To Adversity (Thomas Gray Poem)
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The Owl Describing her Young Ones (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
How dare the robins sing, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How dare the robins sing, When men and women hear Who since they went to their account Have settled with ...
A faded Boy — in sallow Clothes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A faded Boy -- in sallow Clothes Who drove a lonesome Cow To pastures of Oblivion -- A statesman's Embryo ...
How Human Nature dotes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How Human Nature dotes On what it can't detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct -- ...
Fog (Amy Clampitt Poem)
A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spruce-tips drunk ...
The Marmozet (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
The species Man and Marmozet Are intimately linked; The Marmozet survives as yet, But Men are all extinct. (Hilaire Belloc)
The Room (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Through that window-all else being extinct Except itself and me-I saw the struggle Of darkness against darkness. Within the room ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
421. Epitaph on a Lap-dog (Robert Burns Poems)
IN wood and wild, ye warbling throng, Your heavy loss deplore; Now, half extinct your powers of song, Sweet Echo ...
505. Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer (Robert Burns Poems)
HERE Brewer Gabriel's fire's extinct, And empty all his barrels: He's blest-if, as he brew'd, he drink, In upright, honest ...
Wind Chill (Linda Pastan Poems)
The door of winter is frozen shut, and like the bodies of long extinct animals, cars lie abandoned wherever the ...
A Change of Menu (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three, It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big. "I am fed to ...
A Caution To Everybody (Ogden Nash Poems)
Consider the auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who may well ...
A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor (Ogden Nash Poems)
The hands of the clock were reaching high In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Some Last Questions (W. S. Merwin Poems)
What is the head A. Ash What are the eyes A. The wells have fallen in and have Inhabitants What ...
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” (Marianne Moore Poems)
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Ballad of Another Ophelia (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Oh the green glimmer of apples in the orchard, Lamps in a wash of rain! Oh the wet walk of ...