The Idol (George Rostrevor Hamilton Poems)
I"See," said the artist, while with languid careHe posed before his goddess, "how sublimeThe primitive invention was, how bareOf inessentials! ...
Poems about irrelevant (21 Poems)
Landscapes (Lee Harwood Poems)
The ridges either side of the valleywere covered in dark pine forest.The ploughed hill sides were red,and the pastures were ...
Jessie Mitchell’s Mother (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Into her mother's bedroom to wash the ballooning body."My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:Sweet, quiver-soft, ...
Indian Point (Marsden Hartley Poems)
WHEN the surf licks with its tonguesthese volcanic personal shapes, which we,defining for ourselves as rocks, acceptthem as such, at ...
Lament In Spring (Jan Struther Poems)
NOT much longer nowWill the eye seeBonework of bole and bough,The beautiful, austereEssentials of the tree.Intricate traceryUpward and outward growingFrom ...
Burying Friends (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
BURYING friends is not a pomp,Not, indeed, Roman:Lacking the monument,Heroic stone;Nor is it an obscuring parasol,The pad of customary gloves ...
Periodicity (Lesbia Harford Poems)
My friend declaresBeing woman and virgin sheTakes small account of periodicityAnd she is right.Her days are calmly spentFor her sex-function ...
“this night – for you” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
this night - for youand in the fuzzy cut-openmelon of nightits insides sweet and juicyif my body does not shinethe ...
Premature (Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky Poems)
I am of the race of spirits,But do not abide in Heaven's realm,And whenever I attain the clouds,Strength fails me ...
The Eye (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand ...
Beast, Book, Body (Erica Jong Poem)
I was sick of being a woman, sick of the pain, the irrelevant detail of sex, my own concavity uselessly ...
Mother’s Day Proclamation (Julia Ward Howe Poems)
Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! ...
Year’s End (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
A Familiar Letter (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
gentlemen lift the sea (Rg Gregory Poem)
on a deformed request in a train lavatory gentlemen lift the sea be all of you the modern muscular mountains ...
Out of ideas. (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
If I don't write something good tonight I will sleep without the comforting Canopus of deep believers, if I sleep ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 1 (Barry Tebb Poems)
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
Two Lyrics From Kilroy’s Carnival: A Masque (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
I Aria "--Kiss me there where pride is glittering Kiss me where I am ripened and round fruit Kiss me ...
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 ...
Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day (Marge Piercy Poems)
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
The Time Around Scars (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On ...