Tortoise Shell (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the ...
Poems about kicking (27 Poems)
Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
American Beauty (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
That Distance Apart (Jackie Kay Poem)
I am only nineteen My whole life is changing Tonight I see her Shuttered eyes in my dreams I cannot ...
The Galley-Slave (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
Running in the Park (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A family of five with three balls, and stomachs still full of turkey, of pancakes, and sausage ran and played ...
Birches (Robert Frost Poem)
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
The Return of Albert (Marriott Edgar Poem)
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
Goalkeeper Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport, He played for the West ...
Journey Of The Magi (T. S. Eliot Poem)
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
Before the arthritis set in (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It's Wednesday, September 6th and a birthday, again, these things arrive tediously on time with wry regularity - and sadly, ...
The Iron Bridge (Billy Collins Poem)
I am standing on a disused iron bridge that was erected in 1902, according to the iron plaque bolted into ...
The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
Governors On Sominex (David Berman Poem)
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
To Edward Fitzgerald (Robert Browning Poem)
I chanced upon a new book yesterday; I opened it, and, where my finger lay 'Twixt page and uncut page, ...
Melancholia (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and ...
Hot (Charles Bukowski Poems)
she was hot, she was so hot I didn't want anybody else to have her, and if I didn't get ...
Lesbos (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Viciousness in the kitchen! The potatoes hiss. It is all Hollywood, windowless, The fluorescent light wincing on and off like ...
Medusa (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs, Eyes rolled by white sticks, Ears cupping the sea's incoherences, You house your unnerving ...
Pigs (Les Murray Poems)
Us all on sore cement was we. Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mush under that pole the lightning's ...
The Destroying Angel (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
I dreamt a dream the other night That an Angel appeared to me, clothed in white. Oh! it was a ...
The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
Calvin Campbell (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Ye who are kicking against Fate, Tell me how it is that on this hill-side, Running down to the river, ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...
The Potatoes’ Dance (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(A Poem Game.) I "Down cellar," said the cricket, "Down cellar," said the cricket, "Down cellar," said the cricket, "I ...
When Bryan Speaks (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
When Bryan speaks, the town's a hive. From miles around, the autos drive. The sparrow chirps. The rooster crows. The ...