Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
Poems about happen (50 Poems)
The Tint I cannot take — is best — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Tint I cannot take -- is best -- The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
In soothing, sweetened words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
No, she said, I never knew it was your first. It doesn't matter anyway. I always had an inkling that ...
Hoping With Care (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...
Haircut today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
Song of the Worm (Eliza Cook Poem)
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
Monotony (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
One monotonous day is followed by another monotonous, identical day. The same things will happen, they will happen again -- ...
Waiting For The Barbarians (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in ...
Drinking While Driving (Raymond Carver Poem)
It's August and I have not Read a book in six months except something called The Retreat from Moscow by ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
Fit the Fourth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Litany (Billy Collins Poem)
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and ...
The Buried Train (Robert Bly Poem)
Tell me about the train that people say got buried By the avalanche--was it snow?--It was In Colorado, and no ...
THE HUDSON (Luis Benitez Poem)
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
Britannia’s Pastorals (William Browne Poems)
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
Mortality (John Betjeman Poem)
The first-class brains of a senior civil servant Shiver and shatter and fall As the steering column of his comfortable ...
The Sheep (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The Sheep adorns the landscape rural And is both singular and plural- It gives grammarians the creeps To hear one ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
Georgic on Memory (Erin Belieu Poem)
Make your daily monument the Ego, use a masochist's epistemology of shame and dog-eared certainty that others less exacting might ...
Ripening (Wendell Berry Poem)
The longer we are together the larger death grows around us. How many we know by now who are dead! ...
Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Dream Song 15: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago (John Berryman Poem)
Let us suppose, valleys & such ago, one pal unwinding from his labours in one bar of Chicago and this ...
Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me (John Berryman Poem)
The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once. â?"What happen then, Mr Bones? if be you cares ...
Dream Song 76: Henry’s Confession (John Berryman Poems)
Nothin very bad happen to me lately. How you explain that? â?"I explain that, Mr Bones, terms o' your bafflin ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...