One Yard of Earth (Douglas Alexander Stewart Poems)
Darwin, that diffident wise patient manWho proved that men were monkeys as they are,When working out how apes and men ...
Poems about herons (21 Poems)
Prologue (Dylan Thomas Poems)
This day winding down nowAt God speeded summer's endIn the torrent salmon sun,In my seashaken houseOn a breakneck of rocksTangled ...
The Pelican Chorus (Edward Lear Poems)
"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;No other Birds so grand we see!None but we have feet like fins!With lovely ...
Teapots and Quails (Edward Lear Poems)
"Teapots and Quails,Snuffers and Snails,Set him a sailingand see how he sails!..Mitres and Beams,Thimbles and Creams,Set him a screamingand hark! ...
Three Variants (Boris Pasternak Poems)
1When in front of you hangs the day with its Smallest detail-fine or crude- The intensely hot cracking squirrel-sounds Do ...
Morning Worship (Mark van Doren Poem)
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
Walking The Marshland (Stephen Dunn Poem)
It was no place for the faithless, so I felt a little odd walking the marshland with my daughters, Canada ...
Tz’u No. 2 (Wine Joy) (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune "As in a Dream" I have long remembered the pavilion on the stream the falling sun so ...
Tz’u No. 5 (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune of "Like a Dream" I always remember the sunset over the pavilion by the river, so tipsy ...
307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (Robert Burns Poem)
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
Seascape (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels, flying high as they want and as far as they ...
Sabbaths, W.I. (Derek Walcott Poems)
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
The Stolen Child (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake ...
American Feuillage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
The Children of Lir (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses; Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool; Overhead the sunset fire ...
Author’s Prologue (Dylan Thomas Poems)
This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On ...
Poem On His Birthday (Dylan Thomas Poems)
In the mustardseed sun, By full tilt river and switchback sea Where the cormorants scud, In his house on stilts ...
Falling Asleep (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Voices moving about in the quiet house: Thud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors: Everyone yawning. Only the ...
Autumn River Song (Li Po Poems)
The moon shimmers in green water. White herons fly through the moonlight. The young man hears a girl gathering water-chestnuts: ...
The Morning Half-Life Blues (Marge Piercy Poems)
Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur. The shop ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...