Local Stop, Sheridan Square (Eli Siegel Poems)
I The subways, as usual, take emotions north and south.When you are in a subway, emotion goes with you. Emotion ...
Poems about libraries (21 Poems)
Residue (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poems)
From everything a little remained.From my fear. From your disgust.From stifled cries. From the rosea little remained.A little remained of ...
So You Want To Be A Writer (Charles Bukowski Poems)
" if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked ...
Have The Lily (Eli Siegel Poems)
It is a world of space and fritters, Somehow with us all day long; A world - mad - of ...
America (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
A Beat in Concord (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I was sitting there in the traffic, waiting for the light the heat and humidity building in the van, one ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Snow Day (Billy Collins Poem)
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
Syringa (John Ashbery Poem)
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Forest Of Europe (Derek Walcott Poems)
The last leaves fell like notes from a piano and left their ovals echoing in the ear; with gawky music ...
I was Looking a Long While. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these ...
Shut Not Your Doors, &c. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed ...
Carol of Occupations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
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 ...
Unnamed Lands. (Walt Whitman Poems)
NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner'd clusters of ages, ...
Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, ...
To Oratists. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO oratists-to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. Are you full-lung'd and ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
The River (Kathleen Raine Poems)
In my first sleep I came to the river And looked down Through the clear water - Only in dream ...
Late Light (Philip Levine Poems)
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...