People at Night (Denise Levertov Poem)
A night that cuts between you and you and you and you and you and me : jostles us apart, ...
Poems about giants (31 Poems)
The Challenge of Thor (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness ...
Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
On Death. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
TEll me thou safest End of all our Woe, Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so: Thou gentle drier o'th' ...
MOUNTAIN LIFE (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
IN summer dusk the valley lies With far-flung shadow veil; A cloud-sea laps the precipice Before the evening gale: The ...
The Dorchester Giant (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...
Don Quixote (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
The knight of immortal youth at the age of fifty found his mind in his heart and on July morning ...
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
CELEBRITY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...
Trusting God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Nothing more than this to stand before the giants trusting Go to be there to stand with us in battle ...
Seeing a distant future (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
with eyes of faith the patriarchs and earlier the giants of Genesis seeing a distant future promises of the living ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
The Damp (John Donne Poem)
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
Who Giants know, with lesser Men (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy -- For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor ...
We see — Comparatively — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We see -- Comparatively -- The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided -- Yesterday -- ...
Life, and Death, and Giants — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Life, and Death, and Giants -- Such as These -- are still -- Minor -- Apparatus -- Hopper of the ...
It troubled me as once I was — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It troubled me as once I was -- For I was once a Child -- Concluding how an Atom -- ...
I think I was enchanted (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl -- I read that Foreign Lady -- The Dark -- ...
I can wade Grief (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of ...
Had I presumed to hope — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- ...
The Myth of Arthur (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
O learned man who never learned to learn, Save to deduce, by timid steps and small, From towering smoke that ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
The Mores (John Clare Poem)
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
Child Development (Billy Collins Poem)
As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for ...
Talk (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes, Curling in endless shapes, in ...
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came (Robert Browning Poem)
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
November 6 (David Lehman Poems)
Remember when Khrushchev said "We will bury you!" on the cover of Time I thought he was employing a metaphor ...
Our Hills (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Dear Mother-Earth Of Titan birth, Yon hills are your large breasts, and often I Have climbed to their top-nipples, fain ...