The Casterbridge Captains (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all ...
Poems about listener (21 Poems)
The Farewell XXVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
Word Pictures (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Images woven with words recalling memories evoked by the story, the stories of faith, the stories of scripture, of life ...
Visual Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A picture may speak a thousand words but some stories, told well living without pictures Visual words, conjure images, memories, ...
Escalera, Escalera (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
"Ladder, Ladder!" a phrase to which I became accustomed Being beseeched in Spanish The Pastor and the Pilgrim in service ...
Hunger (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh how I hunger for the nourishing of Your word the feeding I receive through spending time with You feeling ...
Nice Teeth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seven descended on the table Away from the crowd He sat in the middle, Back to the wall Surveying the ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The reticent volcano keeps (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan -- Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature ...
And The Piper Dreams (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
And the Piper dreams as he pipes up in his mind colours in choral horizons distant, of courtliness dimmed in ...
Tema con Variazioni (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
Prometheus (Lord Byron Poem)
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
Dream Song 38: The Russian grin bellows his condolence (John Berryman Poem)
The Russian grin bellows his condolence tó the family: ah but it's Kay, & Ted, & Chris & Anne, Henry ...
Friendship (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious been The task of small professors to invent; ...
The Bards Of Olden Time (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers Who, with the accents of life, listening nations ...
The Room (Mark Strand Poems)
It is an old story, the way it happens sometimes in winter, sometimes not. The listener falls to sleep, the ...
The Snow Man (Wallace Stevens Poems)
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; ...
Questionnaire (Carl Sandburg Poems)
HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake? Have I sold ice to the poor in ...
The Fool Rings His Bells (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee; And thou, poor Innocency; And Love -- a lad with broken wing; ...
Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child (Philip Levine Poems)
Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep, I keep night watch. Looking for signs to quiet fear, I creep closer to ...