At The Burns Centennial (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IA hundred years! they're quickly fled, With all their joy and sorrow;Their dead leaves shed upon the dead, Their fresh ones sprung ...
Poems about hostages (16 Poems)
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
ILike a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of bitter ...
Prothalamion (Horace Smith Poems)
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
To Rhea (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes,Not with flatteries, but truths,Which tarnish not, but purifyTo light which dims the morning's eye.I ...
From the Top of the Stairs (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
Of coursethose who are standing at the top of the stairsknowthey know everythingwith us it's differentsweepers of squareshostages of a ...
Dream Song 97: Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig (John Berryman Poems)
Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig,bred when he was brittle, bred when big,how he's sweating to support them.Which birthday ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Ninth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
A Protest (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I. LET no man charge thee, woman if thou art, And therefore pitiful, to veil thine eyes From any naked ...
Thunder Can Break (Christopher Okigbo Poems)
FANFARE of drums, wooden bells: iron chapter; And our dividing airs are gathered home. This day belong to a miracle ...
Third Avenue In Sunlight (Anthony Hecht Poem)
Third Avenue in sunlight. Nature's error. Already the bars are filled and John is there. Beneath a plentiful lady over ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
Dream Song 97: Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig (John Berryman Poem)
Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig, bred when he was brittle, bred when big, how he's sweating to support ...
The Spirit Of The Unborn Babe (Robert William Service Poems)
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
Sonnet XI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
DAyly when I do seeke and sew for peace, And hostages doe offer for my truth: she cruell warriour doth ...
Objector (William Stafford Poems)
In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon to ward off complicity--the ordered life our leaders have offered ...