Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel (Philip Larkin Poem)
Light spreads darkly downwards from the high Clusters of lights over empty chairs That face each other, coloured differently. Through ...
Poems about headed (31 Poems)
A Poem For Myself (Etheridge Knight Poem)
(or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy) I was born in Mississippi; I walked barefooted thru the mud. Born black ...
Things and the Man (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
In the Neolithic Age (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
The Explorer (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
Year’s End (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
Testimony (Seamus Heaney Poem)
'We were killing pigs when the Yanks arrived. A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughter house. >From the ...
Death Of A Naturalist (Seamus Heaney Poem)
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted ...
the rest home (Rg Gregory Poem)
professor piebald (the oldest man in the home) was meek at the same time ribald he clothed his matter (so ...
In The Baggage Room At Greyhound (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
Headed for Destruction (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Before the grace of Christ his willing sacrifice the love of God washing washing over us All of us destined ...
Hide and Seek (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Looking first toward the bus looking for the girls waving good bye as they headed off to school The sun ...
A World Came Alive (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The jetty changed, when the tide came in turned its course and headed out once more There were pools, caught ...
No Call No Show (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A way of life, selfish, lack of respect oblivious to the consequences his disregard of the process his responsibilities, his ...
Brown’s Descent (Robert Frost Poems)
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
A Runnable Stag (John Davidson Poem)
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Clemente’s Images (Robert Creeley Poems)
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Man Listening To Disc (Billy Collins Poem)
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
Cornish Cliffs (John Betjeman Poem)
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13 (John Berryman Poem)
In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces, of liberations, and beloved faces, such as now ere dawn he sings. ...
Easter Morning (A. R. Ammons Poem)
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
Holy Thursday (Innocence) (William Blake Poems)
Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & ...
Jim Brown (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are For ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...