Mr. Cogito and the Imagination (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
Mr. Cogito never trustedtricks of the imaginationthe piano at the top of the Alpsplayed false concerts for himhe didn't appreciate ...
Poems about icarus (21 Poems)
War Profits (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
THE horns of the moon are tippedWith pearl. Her lover, wooedBy charms and won, Endymion,Inherits quietude.White the gleamOf the dreamOn ...
Be Daedalus (Nanina Alba Poems)
Be Daedalus: make wings,Make feathered wings;Bind them with wax. Avoid the parching sun that brings Death as its tax. Suns can be brutal ...
The Fall Of Icarus (Raissa Maritain Poems)
A branch in flower frames the sea.Some ships dream of the universe; On shore the sheep stand drowsily.Icarus has fallen ...
The Voyage (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
? Maxime du CampIFor the child, in love with globe, and stamps,the universe equals his vast appetite.Ah! How great the ...
Professor Piccard (Douglas Alexander Stewart Poems)
Some said it was a shooting star,Some said it was a pheasant;It was the most surprising thingTo villager and peasant.To ...
I would and I would not (Edward Dyer Poems)
I woulde it were not as it isOr that I cared not yea or no;I woulde I thoughte it not ...
Avitor (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(AN AERIAL RETROSPECT)What was it filled my youthful dreams,In place of Greek or Latin themes,Or beauty's wild, bewildering beams? ...
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph (Anne Sexton Poems)
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, and think of that ...
bird of fire – a caution (Rg Gregory Poem)
the dream of the white bird flying offers a freedom as tasty as nectar how our lips purse to the ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
daft icarus (Rg Gregory Poem)
it began as a secret desire (an itch in the marrow too vague to get through to the bone) an ...
Flight 93 (Michael Burch Poem)
I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked why existence felt so small, so purposeless, like a minnow wriggling feebly ...
Winged Man (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
A Letter From Li Po (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus (William Carlos Williams Poems)
According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the ...
The Break (Anne Sexton Poems)
It was also my violent heart that broke, falling down the front hall stairs. It was also a message I ...
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph (Anne Sexton Poems)
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, and think of that ...
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun (Heather McHugh Poems)
Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person? I blame the soup:I'm a primordially stirred person. Two pronouns and a ...
December 7 (David Lehman Poems)
As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a ...