Prevailing Winds (Lee Anderson2 Poems)
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
Poems about lacquer (21 Poems)
Daphne to Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (Matthew Prior Poems)
Apollo.Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed,Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous head;With kind regard a panting lover view;Less swiftly ...
Winter Stars (Larry Levis Poems)
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
Lines I (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Go to the raging sea, and say, "Be still!"Bid the wild lawless winds obey thy will;Preach to the storm, and ...
Christmas Tree (John Frederick Nims Poems)
This seablue fir that rode the mountain stormIs swaddled here in splints of tin to die.Sofas around in chubby velvet ...
Relearning Winter (Mark Svenvold Poems)
Hello Winter, hello flanneledblanket of clouds, cloudsfueled by more clouds, hello again.Hello afternoons,off to the west, that silverof sunset, rust-coloredand ...
Walking through the South Mountain Fields (Li Ho Poems)
The autumn wilds bright,Autumn wind white.Pool-water deep and clear,Insects whining,Clouds rise from rocks,On moss-grown mountains.cold reds weeping dew,Colour of graceful ...
Towns in Colour (Amy Lowell Poems)
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) (Ezra Pound Poems)
IPhyllidula and the Spoils of GouvernetWhere, Lady, are the daysWhen you could go out in a hired hansomWithout footmen and ...
John Company’s Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
To A Dancing Doll (Donald Marquis Poems)
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
A Poem To Explain Everything About A Certain Day In Vermont (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
Fifty wizards working in the windAnd one tall wizard standing in the rearMade a quick sheen to lacquer all Vermont.Up ...
The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
The Mask Of Evil (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
On my wall hangs a Japanese carving, The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer. Sympathetically I observe ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Old Pictures In Florence (Robert Browning Poem)
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
The Fairy Goldsmith (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Here's a wonderful thing, A humming-bird's wing In hammered gold, And store well chosen Of snowflakes frozen In crystal cold. ...
By This Pitch And Motion (Jennifer Reeser Poems)
In the upstairs hallway, complacent sunlight stings the walls with gold and translucent almond over Turkish runners betraying patterns faded ...
Compass Rose (Jennifer Reeser Poems)
I'd buy you a Babushka doll, my heart, and brush your ash-blonde hair until it gleams, were Russia and our ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...