The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Poems about insist (21 Poems)
Tear It Down (Jack Gilbert Poem)
We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
Dream Song 224: Lonely in his great age (John Berryman Poem)
Eighty Lonely in his great age, Henry's old friend leaned on his burning cane while hÃs old friend was hymnéd ...
Exchanging Hats (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Unfunny uncles who insist in trying on a lady's hat, --oh, even if the joke falls flat, we share your ...
60. Epistle on J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE briers an' woodbines budding green, An' paitricks scraichin loud at e'en, An' morning poussie whiddin seen, Inspire my muse, ...
You Cannot Change the World (Brian Tracy Poem)
You cannot change the world, But you can present the world with one improved person -- Yourself. You can go ...
Externalism (Robert William Service Poems)
The Greatest Writer of to-day (With Maupassant I almost set him) Said to me in a weary way, The last ...
Subway (Carl Sandburg Poems)
DOWN between the walls of shadow Where the iron laws insist, The hunger voices mock. The worn wayfaring men With ...
Mr Flood’s Party (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night Over the hill between the town below And the forsaken upland hermitage That ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
London Bridge (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
Tasker Norcross (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
Cows (Paul Muldoon Poems)
Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough from behind the whitethorn hedge: we stop dead in our tracks; a ...
Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny (Lisel Mueller Poems)
Jenny, your mind commands kingdoms of black and white: you shoulder the crow on your left, the snowbird on your ...
And do you think that love itself (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
And do you think that love itself, Living in such an ugly house, Can prosper long? We meet and part; ...
Smoke (Philip Levine Poems)
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...