The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about lapped (29 Poems)
Water (Robert Lowell Poem)
It was a Maine lobster town- each morning boatloads of hands pushed off for granite quarries on the islands, and ...
Voices Of the Night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
PRELUDE. Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, ...
Prelude (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene. Where, ...
A Ripple Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once red ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning-- Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning. ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The First Chantey (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
Cinderella (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances, The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ...
Death (Thomas Hood Poem)
It is not death, that sometime in a sigh This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight; That sometime these ...
Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love (Anthony Hecht Poem)
For William and Emily Maxwell At this time of day One could hear the caulking irons sound Against the hulls ...
St. Winefred’s Well (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
Carrion Comfort (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In ...
The Harvest Bow (Seamus Heaney Poem)
As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silence in you In wheat that does not rust But ...
in search of milk and paradise (Rg Gregory Poem)
heeley (sheffield) autumn 1988 dodging the broken bottles dog-shit the pavement spew i wheel my young son matthew through the ...
A Child’s Nightmare (Robert Graves Poems)
Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That ...
Tallows of Ice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
layer on layer the branches lapped in the slack water dipped by the wind's hand by the bank tallows of ...
The stork (Eugene Field Poem)
Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Dream Song 122: He published his girl’s bottom in staid pages (John Berryman Poems)
He published his girl's bottom in staid pages of an old weekly. Where will next his rages ridiculous Henry land? ...
Pan and Luna (Robert Browning Poem)
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
Shirt (Robert Pinsky Poems)
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Conroy’s Gap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
Elijah Browning (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east ...
Sunk Lyonesse (Walter de la Mare Poems)
In sea-cold Lyonesse, When the Sabbath eve shafts down On the roofs, walls, belfries Of the foundered town, The Nereids ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...