idiot Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Death Of The Kapowsin Tavern (Richard Hugo Poem)

I can't ridge it back again from char. Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores and shattered glass ...

My Aviary (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)

THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...

(i) the inkman (Rg Gregory Poem)

whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...

Heine’s “Widow or Daughter?” (Eugene Field Poems)

Shall I woo the one or other? Both attract me--more's the pity! Pretty is the widowed mother, And the daughter, ...

The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...

The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...

Emotional Idiot (Maggie Estep Poem)

Liner Notes - (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviously a theme close to my heart ...

Merlin I (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...

Merlin (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...

Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...

Elegy X: The Dream (John Donne Poem)

Image of her whom I love, more than she, Whose fair impression in my faithful heart Makes me her medal, ...

They Should Have Provided (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)

I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...

The Song of Education (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

III. For the Creche Form 8277059, Sub-Section K I remember my mother, the day that we met, A thing I ...

The Mad Yak (Gregory Corso Poem)

I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me. They are waiting for me to die; ...

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01 (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)

The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...

The Sea (Lewis Carroll Poem)

There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...

A Sea Dirge (Lewis Carroll Poem)

There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...

Filthy Savior (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)

Look at this storm, the idiot, pouring its heart out here, of all places, an industrial suburb on a Sunday, ...

All Distance (Erin Belieu Poem)

Writing from Boston, where sky is simply property, a flourish topping crowds of condos and historic real estate, I'm trying ...

Sabbaths 2001 (Wendell Berry Poem)

I He wakes in darkness. All around are sounds of stones shifting, locks unlocking. As if some one had lifted ...

The Curse (John Berryman Poem)

Cedars and the westward sun. The darkening sky. A man alone Watches beside the fallen wall The evening multitudes of ...

450. Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice (Robert Burns Poem)

HOW cold is that bosom which folly once fired, How pale is that cheek where the rouge lately glisten'd; How ...

A Challenge To The Dark (Charles Bukowski Poem)

shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing ...

Turns And Movies: Rose And Murray (Conrad Aiken Poem)

After the movie, when the lights come up, He takes her powdered hand behind the wings; She, all in yellow, ...

Senlin: His Dark Origins (Conrad Aiken Poem)

1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...

Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations (Conrad Aiken Poem)