Conscription Camp (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Your landscape sickens with a dry diseaseEven in May, Virginia, and your sweet pinesLike Frenchmen runted in a hundred warsAre ...
Poems about manufacture (21 Poems)
Gravity (Harold Monro Poems)
I Fit for perpetual worship is the powerThat holds our bodies safely to the earth.When people talk of their domestic ...
Presidential (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Carmina tum melius, cum venerit IPSE canemus.VIRG. Bucolica, Ecl. ix.CASTLE GARDEN was splendid one night- though the wetPut off for ...
Epilogue to Henry II. (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,Occasioned by a mistress and a queen.Queen Eleanor the proud was French, they say;But ...
Prologue to the True Widow (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age!Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage.The fools have laboured long ...
Telephone Directory (Harry Crosby Poems)
Mad Queen Aeronautical CorporationCyclone 3030Mad Queen Chemical CorporationGunpowder 3328Mad Queen Company for the Manufacture of Hand GrenadesGunpowder 8878Mad Queen Drug ...
The Alchemist (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
He capped a flask and hissed a quiet curse -Bleakly smiling, tapped a switch to bleedA pressure vessel. (Clearly what ...
A Phenomenal Fauna (Carolyn Wells Poems)
THE REG'LAR LARKThe Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends ...
The Calm (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Bedlam (Abner Cosens Poems)
The world is mad, my masters, The poet had the facts To prove this sweeping statement, In ...
Curriculum Vitae (Anthony Hecht Poem)
As though it were reluctant to be day, .......Morning deploys a scale .......Of rarities in gray, And winter settles down ...
On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. (Thom Gunn Poems)
The blue jay scuffling in the bushes follows Some hidden purpose, and the gush of birds That spurts across the ...
War Profit Litany (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand ...
Worth Far Less (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our lives so much more valuable than our constant struggles our worries worth far less than the energy we invest ...
Adam Asked (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Adam asked About Dad and what he did Saturday night. An interest In his family In a grandfather Gone since ...
Fishing On The Susquehanna In July (Billy Collins Poem)
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna or on any river for that matter to be perfectly honest. Not ...
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 ...
How Much More Blood? (Sukasah Syahdan Poems)
How much more blood must the people suffer before they come to a halt with this horror of power? How ...
The Sins of Kalamazoo (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World’s Fair Judge (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Thrice welcome home to Hawick, Mr J. Graham Henderson, For by your Scotch tweeds a great honour you have won; ...
Cotton and Corn (Thomas Moore Poems)
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day, As they met and exchang'd salute-- (Squire Corn in his carriage so gay, Poor ...