Before Battle (Martin Armstrong Poems)
Here on the blind verge of infinityWe live ard move like moles. Our crumbling trenchGapes like a long wound in ...
Poems about fours (21 Poems)
Dumb-Bells (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
DUMB-BELLS left, dumb-bells right, Swing them hard, grip them tight! Thirty fat men of the town Must sweat their filthy paunches down. Dripping sweat ...
Molly Means (Margaret Walker Poems)
Molly MeansOld Molly Means was a hag and a witch;Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.Her heavy hair hung ...
Sleep-Steale (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know. Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother went to fetch waterfrom the ...
A Lecture On The Circle (Nichita Stanescu Poems)
You draw a circle in the sand and then halve the circle with the same hazelnut stick. Next you fall to your knees, then ...
Winter Song (Nichita Stanescu Poems)
You are so beautiful in winter!The field stretched on its back, near the horizon,and the trees stopped running from the ...
The Alpine Club Man (E W Bowling Poems)
We who know not the charms of a glass below Zero, Come list to the lay of an Alpine Club ...
The Strawberry Roan (Curley Fletcher Poems)
I was laying round town just spending my timeOut of a job and not makin' a dimeWhen up steps a ...
Chicken Koop an’ Possum Chase (Elliott Blaine Henderson Poems)
Possum time? Dahky take up de trail. Rahbit skirtin' thoo de thicket, In de barn yawd sots de quail. Cum ...
Buckshee (Billy Bennett Poems)
Since the boys have come back from that terrible warWe're all using words that were not heard beforeLearnt in the ...
‘ Form Fours.’ (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
A Volunteer's Nightmare. If you're Volunteer Artist or Athlete, or if you defend the Home, You sacrifice ' Ease ' ...
Clerihew – Victor Hugo (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
How many times mused Hugo,does fours into 372 go?Come now; let me see.I have it — Ninety three!(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Tortoise Shell (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children -- less. But adults he pities not at all. He ...
The Lady’s First Song (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I turn round Like a dumb beast in a show. Neither know what I am Nor where I go, My ...
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Desks are straining on all fours, flanks Heaving to hurl the hunched riders Down crack and cranny, buck Finger-snapping lids, ...
Old King Cole (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
Very Like a Whale (Ogden Nash Poems)
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...