The Layers (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some ...
Poems about intact (31 Poems)
Public Waste (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
Yes And No (Laura Riding Jackson Poem)
Across a continent imaginary Because it cannot be discovered now Upon this fully apprehended planet- No more applicants considered, Alas, ...
Scars on Paper (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
The Peasant’s Confession (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
My Cicely (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
Under The Waterfall (Thomas Hardy Poem)
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
portland views (Rg Gregory Poem)
wherever there's a tear in the fabric around weymouth - portland appears from abbotsbury hill it's just a long thin ...
cherries and birds (Rg Gregory Poem)
cherries are so vulnerable blinking their way from green to polished red in trees guileless to stave off birds a ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Lullaby (Louise Gluck Poem)
My mother's an expert in one thing: sending people she loves into the other world. The little ones, the babies--these ...
The Bride of Frankenstein (Edward Field Poem)
The Baron has decided to mate the monster, to breed him perhaps, in the interests of pure science, his only ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning -- Lightning -- lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality. Maimed ...
Growth of Man — like Growth of Nature — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Growth of Man -- like Growth of Nature -- Gravitates within -- Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it -- Bit it ...
Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! Why, God, would be content With but a fraction of the Life -- Poured thee, ...
One Life of so much Consequence! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One Life of so much Consequence! Yet I -- for it -- would pay -- My Soul's entire income -- ...
Terra nullis ignorata (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We came to find the place contained in legendary tracts, the hidden land of fulsome wealth that we had sorely ...
Remember with affection (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
They'll always tell a story those obscure mementos stacked on dusty shelves, demure and silent like the other gaudy tributes ...
Having each of you as friends (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
Don’t talk to me of War (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
Salvage (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Daily the cortege of crumpled defunct cars goes by by the lasagna- layered flatbed truckload: hardtop reverting to tar smudge, ...
The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (William Bronk Poem)
This boy, of course, was dead, whatever that might mean. And nobly dead. I think we should feel he was ...
Georgic on Memory (Erin Belieu Poem)
Make your daily monument the Ego, use a masochist's epistemology of shame and dog-eared certainty that others less exacting might ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Call To Account! (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
The drum of war thunders and thunders. It calls: thrust iron into the living. From every country slave after slave ...
Ode To a Chestnut on the Ground (Pablo Neruda Poems)
From bristly foliage you fell complete, polished wood, gleaming mahogany, as perfect as a violin newly born of the treetops, ...
Georgine Sand Miner (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me. A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue. For years I ...
The Identification (Roger McGough Poems)
So you think its Stephen? Then I'd best make sure Be on the safe side as it were. Ah, theres ...
Clouds (Philip Levine Poems)
1 Dawn. First light tearing at the rough tongues of the zinnias, at the leaves of the just born. Today ...