Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
Poems about fireflies (21 Poems)
Behind a Wall (Amy Lowell Poem)
I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, ...
The Evening Of The Mind (Donald Justice Poem)
Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood; Here is the shadow moving ...
Jet (Tony Hoagland Poem)
Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and ...
your tiger (Rg Gregory Poem)
(in china it is symbolic of darkness and the new moon) in your night's hollow the tiger stalks black grasses ...
Dancing Light (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hot summer eve watching by the lawn, the field dancing light in the grasses the fireflies showing their finery climbing ...
After Epiphany (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When did his star stop shining, in the night what guided the wise men, was there a night shadow the ...
The Porch (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I lay back in My lover's arms On the porch Under a star filled sky. How close I felt to ...
Restless Night (Tu Fu Poem)
As bamboo chill drifts into the bedroom, Moonlight fills every corner of our Garden. Heavy dew beads and trickles. Stars ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
Manuelzinho (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
While Someone Telephones (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Wasted, wasted minutes that couldn't be worse, minutes of a barbaric condescension. --Stare out the bathroom window at the fir-trees, ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
Lullaby (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Now the day is done, Now the shepherd sun Drives his white flocks from the sky; Now the flowers rest ...
Bianca Among The Nightingales (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The cypress stood up like a church That night we felt our love would hold, And saintly moonlight seemed to ...
Four Songs Of Four Seasons (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Summer In The Country (Charles Simic Poems)
One shows me how to lie down in a field of clover. Another how to slip my hand under her ...
The Disquieting Muses (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Mother, mother, what ill-bred aunt Or what disfigured and unsightly Cousin did you so unwisely keep Unasked to my christening, ...
LEILI (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
THE serpents are asleep among the poppies, The fireflies light the soundless panther's way To tangled paths where shy gazelles ...
When A Woman Loves A Man (David Lehman Poems)
When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never ...