The Blue Scarf (Amy Lowell Poem)
Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded In smooth, running patterns, a soft stuff, with ...
Poems about gulp (21 Poems)
Deceptions (Philip Larkin Poem)
"Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified ...
Peter Anderson And Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
Well Water (Randall Jarrell Poem)
What a girl called "the dailiness of life" (Adding an errand to your errand. Saying, "Since you're up . . ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”: A Logical Story (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
Strong Beer (Robert Graves Poem)
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
The Hound Who Ate My Sundae (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh man! Nothing Mom and Dad were away; I had such big plans Four kinds of ice cream, scooped, melting ...
The Child and the Mariner (William Henry Davies Poem)
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Folk Tune (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up, it's more like high time for the lad's last nap. And ...
Elegy (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up, it's more like high time for the lad's last nap. And ...
Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was Called Ambarvalia (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Swings the way still by hollow and hill, And all the world's a song; "She's far," it sings me, "but ...
Dream Song 99: Temples (John Berryman Poem)
He does not live here but it is the god. A priest tools in a top his motorbike. You do ...
Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
The Dream (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I Moonlight and dew-drenched blossom, and the scent Of summer gardens; these can bring you all Those dreams that in ...
Aztec Mask (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I wanted a man's face looking into the jaws and throat of life With something proud on his face, so ...
Conqueror (Russell Hughes Ragsdale Poems)
I was a gulp of high air - a bird breathing in, a black dot on blue paper, a privileged ...
Love Is A Parallax (Sylvia Plath Poems)
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
Gigolo (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Pocket watch, I tick well. The streets are lizardly crevices Sheer-sided, with holes where to hide. It is best to ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
The Horses (Edwin Muir Poems)
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange ...
The Crane & The Fox, a Fable (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would ...