Cadet Grey – Canto II (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Poems about inspection (21 Poems)
Artemus Ward (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I like Artemus Ward, that quaint Rough, sturdy, antiquated Showman,Who travell'd Yankee-land to paint The social ills in man and ...
Men, Women, And Words (Ben Ray Redman Poems)
CHLORINDA in the slipping gown Unblushingly parades her soul For clinical inspection as Example of the Sapphic r?le;While Doris shudders ...
Vanity Fair (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In Vanity Fair, as we bow and smile,As we talk of the opera after the weather,As we chat of fashion ...
Vulture (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through ...
Hawk Roosting (Ted Hughes Poem)
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and ...
eight roundels (Rg Gregory Poem)
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
WHO’LL BUY GODS OF LOVE? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OF all the beauteous wares Exposed for sale at fairs, None will give more delight Than those that to your ...
Joe Ramsbottom (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Albert Down Under (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
This Dust, and its Feature — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
An ignorance a Sunset (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An ignorance a Sunset Confer upon the Eye -- Of Territory -- Color -- Circumference -- Decay -- Its Amber ...
The Charm Of 5:30 (David Berman Poem)
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
247. Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive (Robert Burns Poem)
DWELLER in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation! mark, Who in widow-weeds appears, Laden with unhonour'd years, Noosing with care ...
110. Epistle to a Young Friend (Robert Burns Poems)
May-, 1786.I LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
A BALLAD (THESIS FOR A DOCTOR’S DEGREE) (Andrei Voznesensky Poems)
My doc announced yesterday : "You may have talent, though it's hidden, your beak, however, is frost-bitten, so stick at ...
Bessie’s Boil (Robert William Service Poems)
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind." Says she: "You are right, ...
You (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
You came - determined, because I was large, because I was roaring, but on close inspection you saw a mere ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...