The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
Poems about happily (31 Poems)
The North Ship (Philip Larkin Poem)
Legend I saw three ships go sailing by, Over the sea, the lifting sea, And the wind rose in the ...
In Memory Of My Mother (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down ...
To The Nile (John Keats Poem)
Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while ...
The Poet’s Corner (Laura Riding Jackson Poems)
Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what ...
O, It Was Out by Donnycarney (James Joyce Poem)
O, it was out by Donnycarney When the bat flew from tree to tree My love and I did walk ...
A VOW TO VENUS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Happily I had a sight Of my dearest dear last night; Make her this day smile on me, And I'll ...
stylised tulips (Rg Gregory Poem)
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
DEATH-LAMENT OF THE NOBLE WIFE OF ASAN AGA. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
Nagasaki Days (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I -- A Pleasant Afternoon for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup One day 3 poets and 60 ears sat under ...
The Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Trying to change the discussion, to force him to agree to admit that torture, any torture, was justified that the ...
More Mary than Martha (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh she can do the whole housekeeping thing, the cooking, the cleaning, the busy bustle of life But she would ...
Cheerful Piety (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Quiet, reverent, cheerful piety living happily in relationship in direct connection with God Praying, fasting, giving, communing with God, not ...
Ten Maidens (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Five of ten enter by the narrow gate the rest are caught asleep, unprepared lamps empty, without their oil in ...
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path’d Experience (Michael Drayton Poems)
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide, Her simple followers evidently shows Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, Nor yet wise Reason absolutely ...
Slant (Stephen Dunn Poem)
Yesterday, for a long while, the early morning sunlight in the trees was sufficient, replaced by a hello from a ...
The Way to know the Bobolink (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
Day That I Have Loved (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter (Conrad Aiken Poem)
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
Senlin: His Dark Origins (Conrad Aiken Poem)
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations (Conrad Aiken Poem)
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow (Conrad Aiken Poem)
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
Ode To Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In ...
The Sprig of Moss (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
In Arthur’s House (William Morris Poems)
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
To Silvia (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Silvia, do you remember the moments, in your mortal life, when beauty still shone in your sidelong, laughing eyes, and ...
April 24 (David Lehman Poems)
Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive? I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night ...