it may not always be so; and i say (E. E. Cummings Poems)
it may not always be so;and i saythat if your lips,which i have loved,should touchanother's,and your dear strong fingers clutchhis ...
Poems about helplessly (21 Poems)
Sonnet CCVIII: “Speed in thy solemn pilgrimage, O Earth” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Speed on thy solemn pilgrimage, O Earth; And count thy rosary of golden days Before thy Maker's feet in prayerful ...
Song Of The Final Meeting (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
My breast grew helplessly cold,But my steps were light.I pulled the glove from my left handMistakenly onto my right.It seemed ...
Iconoclast (Edith Mirick Poems)
I am an iconoclast. I delightIn upsetting dignified customs; In seeing their frilled petticoatsAnd pantalettes fluttering,Upturned helplessly to heaven.I like ...
Fast Break (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Edward Hirsch (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Mother Duck (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A human interest story in the midst of the chaos the flooding of the Merrimack in the heart of the ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
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 ...
Syringa (John Ashbery Poem)
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
Sleepers, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Should Lanterns Shine (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Should lanterns shine, the holy face, Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light, Would wither up, an any boy of ...
All Night, All Night (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
"I have been one acquainted with the night" - Robert Frost Rode in the train all night, in the sick ...
Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Someone is harshly coughing on the next floor, Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat: Who is the sick ...
His Boys (Robert William Service Poems)
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
The Ballad of the Calliope (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...
The Blue Swallows (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Across the millstream below the bridge Seven blue swallows divide the air In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the ...
Grace Darling (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
The Wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
The Wreck of the Columbine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Modern Love XL: I Bade My Lady Think (George Meredith Poems)
I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet ...