On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Poems about impossible (51 Poems)
Statuary (Nick Flynn Poem)
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
Thoreau in Italy (Robert Francis Poem)
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants- they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons. He thought ...
Glass (Robert Francis Poem)
Words of a poem should be glass But glass so simple-subtle its shape Is nothing but the shape of what ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot Poem)
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Words, Wide Night (Carol Ann Duffy Poem)
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The ...
To Fr. Armando (Regina Derieva Poem)
Everyone, after all, was killed: he who was crucified, he who died without skin, he who died without a head, ...
Buying Stock (Denise Duhamel Poem)
"...The use of condoms offers substantial protection, but does not guarantee total protection and that while there is no evidence ...
Mayakovsky In New York: A Found Poem (Annie Dillard Poem)
New York: You take a train that rips through versts. It feels as if the trains were running over your ...
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Commedy Call’d The Double Dealer (John Dryden Poems)
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
I should not dare to be so sad (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I should not dare to be so sad So many Years again -- A Load is first impossible When we ...
Delight — becomes pictorial — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Delight -- becomes pictorial -- When viewed through Pain -- More fair -- because impossible Than any gain -- The ...
A lane of Yellow led the eye (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird ...
The Wind — tapped like a tired Man (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Wind -- tapped like a tired Man -- And like a Host -- "Come in" I boldly answered -- ...
We talked as Girls do — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We talked as Girls do -- Fond, and late -- We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave -- ...
I like a look of Agony, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true -- Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a ...
Steve’s tears (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
Futurelessness (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
The House of Christmas (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress (Richard Crashaw Poem)
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
A Hermit Thrush (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
Happy Dust (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
Happy Dust (Aleister Crowley Poem)
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
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 Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Aeolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
The Eolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
There was set before me a mighty hill (Stephen Crane Poem)
There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had ...