Contours (Noel Coward Poems)
Round - oblong - like jam -Terse as virulent hermaphrodites;Calling across the sodden twisted ends of Time.Edifices of importunitySway like ...
Poems about gutted (21 Poems)
Epitaph For Our Children (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;Playing their blind-man's-bluff ...
The Kelly Gang (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hearThe news that's going round,On the head of bold Ned KellyThey have placed two ...
Old Town Types No.11 – Great Toll the Smith (C J Dennis Poems)
As first I remember him: A red man, and tall, Great Toll, the blacksmith, filled my childish eye.At its first ...
Epitaph For Our Children (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;Playing their blind-man's-bluff ...
The Cellist (Galway Kinnell Poem)
At intermission I find her backstage still practicing the piece coming up next. She calls it the "solo in high ...
Passing Through (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries. In the secrecy of my room I would not admit I cared ...
The Widow’s Party (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
"Where have you been this while away, Johnnie, Johnnie?" 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay, Johnnie, my Johnnie, ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Futurelessness (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
LONDON ROSES (Willa Cather Poem)
"ROWSES, Rowses! Penny a bunch!" they tell you-- Slattern girls in Trafalgar, eager to sell you. Roses, roses, red in ...
A Song of Defeat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
Holy-Cross Day (Robert Browning Poem)
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
Epitaph For Our Children (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos; Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear; Playing ...
Forward (Robert William Service Poems)
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes In weary, woeful, waiting times; In doleful hours of battle-din, Ere yet they ...
A Postcard From The Volcano (Wallace Stevens Poems)
Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; And ...
Pursuit (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll ...
Calamity in London (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
They Feed They Lion (Philip Levine Poems)
Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids ...