The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about ladders (21 Poems)
A Little Song (Amy Lowell Poem)
When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night ...
The Ghost (Henry Lawson Poem)
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
Climbing You (Erica Jong Poem)
I want to understand the steep thing that climbs ladders in your throat. I can't make sense of you. Everywhere ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 (Nick Flynn Poem)
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know that the universe is ever-expanding, inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies swallowed by galaxies, ...
A Solemn thing within the Soul (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Solemn thing within the Soul To feel itself get ripe -- And golden hang -- while farther up -- ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Winter Landscape (John Betjeman Poem)
The three men coming down the winter hill In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds At heel, ...
Winter Landscape (John Berryman Poem)
The three men coming down the winter hill In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds At heel, ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
A Fire-Truck (Richard Wilbur Poems)
Right down the shocked street with a siren-blast That sends all else skittering to the curb, Redness, brass, ladders and ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
The Other (Anne Sexton Poems)
Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, it waits. Under my eyes, those milk bunnies, it waits. It is waiting. It ...
The Vagaries of Fishes (Judith Skillman Poems)
After they passed beneath us I could tell more would be coming, beneath the sand, under the bejeweled sky, under ...
Throwbacks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SOMEWHERE you and I remember we came. Stairways from the sea and our heads dripping. Ladders of dust and mud ...
The Colossus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get you put together entirely, Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles Proceed from ...
Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
Heaven (Philip Levine Poems)
If you were twenty-seven and had done time for beating our ex-wife and had no dreams you remembered in the ...