Alma Venus! [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Poems about gender (21 Poems)
Altarwise By Owl-Light (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from ...
Lydia Dick (Eugene Field Poems)
When I was a boy at college, Filling up with classic knowledge, Frequently I wondered why Old Professor Demas ...
To A Soubrette (Eugene Field Poems)
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tenderMy thoughts go back in time's dull ...
Consorting With Angels (Anne Sexton Poems)
I was tired of being a woman,tired of the spoons and the post,tired of my mouth and my breasts,tired of ...
The Doll’s Wooing (Eugene Field Poems)
The little French doll was a dear little dollTricked out in the sweetest of dresses;Her eyes were of hueA most ...
Sonnet CLXX: “Yes, I could trust, forever and a day” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Yes, I could trust, forever and a day, Thy constant heart to any worldling's wiles, Surround thy senses with the ...
The Boy (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
the rest home (Rg Gregory Poem)
professor piebald (the oldest man in the home) was meek at the same time ribald he clothed his matter (so ...
A Personal Pentecost (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As if they needed proof, confirmation that the words of the apostle were true God placed an exclamation point of ...
Invisible Walls (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Divisions, difference, distinctions to separate, not of God's hands, human barriers invisible walls, of race, gender, of color, of culture ...
To a soubrette (Eugene Field Poem)
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
The doll’s wooing (Eugene Field Poems)
The little French doll was a dear little doll Tricked out in the sweetest of dresses; Her eyes were of ...
Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
A Silence (Amy Clampitt Poem)
past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven ...
These Green-Going-to-Yellow (Marvin Bell Poem)
This year, I'm raising the emotional ante, putting my face in the leaves to be stepped on, seeing myself among ...
278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations (Robert Burns Poems)
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
Consorting With Angels (Anne Sexton Poems)
I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle (William Shakespeare Poems)
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...
A Dream of the Melbourne Cup (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Bring me a quart of colonial beer And some doughy damper to make good cheer, I must make a heavy ...
The Clean Plater (Ogden Nash Poems)
Some singers sing of ladies' eyes, And some of ladies lips, Refined ones praise their ladylike ways, And course ones ...