Night (Charles Churchill Poems)
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
Poems about implied (21 Poems)
Tale XVIII (George Crabbe Poems)
THE WAGER.Counter and Clubb were men in trade, whose pains,Credit, and prudence, brought them constant gains;Partners and punctual, every friend ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Tale IV (George Crabbe Poems)
PROCRASTINATION.Love will expire--the gay, the happy dreamWill turn to scorn, indiff'rence, or esteem:Some favour'd pairs, in this exchange, are blest,Nor ...
MAUBERLEY (Ezra Pound Poems)
ITurned from the 'eau-fortePar Jaquemart'To the strait headOf Messalina:'His true PenelopeWas Flaubert,'And his toolThe engraver's.Firmness,Not the full smile,His art, but ...
An Ancient Gesture (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:Penelope did this too.And more than once: you ...
Sonnet 08 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oh, love of woman, you are known to be A passion sent to plague the hearts of men; For every ...
The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet (Tony Hoagland Poem)
At this height, Kansas is just a concept, a checkerboard design of wheat and corn no larger than the foldout ...
Please Listen to Him (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God in claiming Jesus up on the mountain saying the words, "this is my son"; but more than this was ...
Tales in the beginning (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Tales in the beginning didn't begin in the telling, they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete ...
Sends the wrong message (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What's in a song John (or is it 'Knuckles'), what's in a song about an unemployed, suicidal bum, caught in ...
Free from intrusion (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
A few kind words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A few kind words, what can be bought with that? In essence just a clique of tidy prose, a verb, ...
Shoveling Snow With Buddha (Billy Collins Poem)
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
THE SINGING (C. K. Williams Poems)
I was walking home down a hill near our house on a balmy afternoon under the blossoms Of the pear ...
Orlie Wilde (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A goddess, with a siren's grace,-- A sun-haired girl on a craggy place Above a bay where fish-boats lay Drifting ...
Sonnet 08 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oh, love of woman, you are known to be A passion sent to plague the hearts of men; For every ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
An Ancient Gesture (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than ...
Shake The Superflux! (David Lehman Poems)
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, ...