Exposed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Brutal honesty, to ourselves mainly opening wounds, covered, buried exposing them to the light, to his grace to put them ...
Poems about lighter (30 Poems)
Shafts of Light (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Faint shafts of light falling down from the grey, milky sky ribbons of a lighter grey, almost white cutting through ...
Prayers for Our Hearing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wanting to meet You in the words shared among us; to meet you on the road on the pilgrimage we ...
September Corn (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Slimmer pickings at the farm stand smaller, more immature lighter kernels on the cob late corn, from the gleanings before ...
The Dinkey Bird (Eugene Field Poem)
In an ocean, 'way out yonder, (As all sapient people know) Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children love to ...
On a Honey Bee (Philip Freneau Poem)
Thou born to sip the lake or spring, Or quaff the waters of the stream, Why hither come on vagrant ...
The Man Bitten By Fleas (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
FOR He, that made, must new create us, Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, With all their serious Admonitions, Can, for the ...
My Soul — accused me — And I quailed — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My Soul -- accused me -- And I quailed -- As Tongue of Diamond had reviled All else accused me ...
From Blank to Blank — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
From Blank to Blank -- A Threadless Way I pushed Mechanic feet -- To stop -- or perish -- or ...
Night Ray (Paul Celan Poem)
Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one: to her I send the coffin of lightest ...
Jesus Hasting to Suffer (William Cowper Poem)
The Saviour, what a noble flame Was kindled in his breast, When hasting to Jerusalem, He march'd before the rest. ...
Prayer for Patience (William Cowper Poem)
Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, My peace and pardon to procure, The lighter cross I bear for Thee, ...
Four Days In Vermont (Robert Creeley Poem)
Window's tree trunk's predominant face a single eye-leveled hole where limb's torn off another larger contorts to swell growing in ...
The Lime-tree Bower my Prison [Addressed to Charles Lamb, o (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
My Fancy (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I painted her a gushing thing, With years about a score; I little thought to find they were A least ...
Contemplating Hell (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
The Charm Of 5:30 (David Berman Poem)
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
Words For Departure (Louise Bogan Poem)
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements, The window-sills were wet ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
344. Song-Nithdale’s Welcome Hame (Robert Burns Poems)
THE NOBLE Maxwells and their powers Are coming o'er the border, And they'll gae big Terreagles' towers And set them ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches’ Sabbath (Conrad Aiken Poems)
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Inferno Canto03 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
419. Bonie Jean: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
THERE was a lass, and she was fair, At kirk or market to be seen; When a' our fairest maids ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
Tears (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That ...
To Be In Love (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look ...