The Fly (General George S Patton Jnr Poems)
O, sweet slight friendWho frolics freeO'er cactus plainOr sandy lee, No one can lonelyLong remainWhile hearkening toThy blithe refrain When ...
Poems about maggots (21 Poems)
To Mr Edward Howard, on his Incomparable (Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville Poems)
Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare, For, read it backward like a witch's prayer, 'Twill do as ...
Love Song: I And Thou (Alan Dugan Poems)
Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits ...
Spring (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Bobber (Raymond Carver Poem)
On the Columbia River near Vantage, Washington, we fished for whitefish in the winter months; my dad, Swede- Mr. Lindgren-and ...
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. ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
162. The Bookworms (Robert Burns Poems)
THROUGH and through th' inspir'd leaves, Ye maggots, make your windings; But O respect his lordship's taste, And spare his ...
166. Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh (Robert Burns Poems)
YE maggots, feed on Nicol's brain, For few sic feasts you've gotten; And fix your claws in Nicol's heart, For ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (Edward Taylor Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
To Think of Time. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (James Tate Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
Cripples And Other Stories (Anne Sexton Poems)
My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme... ...
I See The Boys Of Summer (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, ...
From Love’s First Fever To Her Plague (Dylan Thomas Poems)
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From ...
Live (Anne Sexton Poems)
Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell ...
The Liars (Carl Sandburg Poems)
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes. A liar goes in rags. A liar is a liar, clothes or no ...
Spring (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the ...