The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Poems about loosely (31 Poems)
Sad Steps (Philip Larkin Poem)
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
The Captain of the Push (Henry Lawson Poem)
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
Song from The Silent Woman (Ben Jonson Poem)
Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still ...
Simplex Munditiis (Ben Jonson Poem)
STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still ...
Anonymous Drawing (Donald Justice Poem)
A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that ...
Old Age Gets Up (Ted Hughes Poem)
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that ...
The Sick Stockrider (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
Purposeful (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Purposeful, mindful in the way we walk this earth temporary residents are all we are; Not owners of the world ...
Grain, not Tares (weeds) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In this season of harvest as the bounty of your creation presenting itself anew reminding us of your love, your ...
The Black Cottage (Robert Frost Poem)
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
The Silken Tent (Robert Frost Poem)
She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew ...
Kinky (Denise Duhamel Poem)
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
Sonnet XXIV: I Hear Some Say (Michael Drayton Poem)
I hear some say, "This man is not in love." "What? Can he love? A likely thing," they say; "Read ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Hexameters (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
Punctuality (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Man Naturally loves delay, And to procrastinate; Business put off from day to day Is always done to late. Let ...
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man (John Betjeman Poem)
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Strayed Reveller (Matthew Arnold Poem)
1 Faster, faster, 2 O Circe, Goddess, 3 Let the wild, thronging train 4 The bright procession 5 Of eddying ...
Strayed Reveller, The (Matthew Arnold Poem)
The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through ...
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever (Les Murray Poems)
To go home and wear shorts forever in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate, adding a sweater when winter ...
Comete (Les Murray Poems)
Uphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day a woman is walking ahead of her hair. Like teak oiled soft to ...
The Gallery (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Clora come view my Soul, and tell Whether I have contriv'd it well. Now all its several lodgings lye Compos'd ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Teddy Bear (A. A. Milne Poems)
A bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not ...