Francis II, King of Naples (Amy Lowell Poem)
Written after reading Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the making of Italy" Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race ...
Poems about furtive (26 Poems)
The Iron Wedding Rings (Henry Lawson Poem)
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Crossing the Frontier (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
Hastening to Bethlehem (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe, in this modern age, the best way to think of the journey to the Christ child the season of ...
Not Enough Pastel Plaid (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the shop, a bit too pretty, pristine I caught a few subtle, furtive, slightly disdainful glances supposing, deciding we ...
Finding Our Niche (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What would be said, if we were to close; who would know, who would care? What is our niche, our ...
Stories (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So many stories, many of pain on the faces, in the eyes, the furtive eyes, the postures, the countenance of ...
A Greater Ease on His Face (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I saw a change, a difference; yes, there was still a hint of hesitance, that has been there for a ...
Fresh Fruit (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Bright, young faces sitting on the steps, in the chancel drinking in the words of the pastor hearing of the ...
Gray to Green (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
People, random strangers Cool stores Hot blacktop Eyes turn Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing ...
Green Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
People, random strangers Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing Darkening sky Deep grays Strong edges ...
Cornish Lullaby (Eugene Field Poem)
Out on the mountain over the town, All night long, all night long, The trolls go up and the trolls ...
An altered look about the hills (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An altered look about the hills -- A Tyrian light the village fills -- A wider sunrise in the morn ...
The Summer I Was Sixteen (Geraldine Connolly Poem)
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
Jealousy (Rupert Brooke Poem)
When I see you, who were so wise and cool, Gazing with silly sickness on that fool You've given your ...
Lines to a Don (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
THE SADNESS OF THE MOON (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
THE Moon more indolently dreams to-night Than a fair woman on her couch at rest, Caressing, with a hand distraught ...
Never The Time And The Place (Robert Browning Poem)
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- ...
Braggart (Dorothy Parker Poems)
The days will rally, wreathing Their crazy tarantelle; And you must go on breathing, But I'll be safe in hell. ...
A Request (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
When I am dead I would that ye make my bed On that low-lying, windy waste by the sea, Where ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
GRANDAD AND A PRAMLOAD OF CLOCKS (John Lindley Poems)
Wheeling them in, the yard gate at half-mast with its ticking hinge, the tin bucket with a hairnet of webs, ...
The Proud Farmer (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Into the acres of the newborn state He poured his strength, ...