The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Poems about mistake (31 Poems)
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
A Farewell to the World (Ben Jonson Poem)
FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought That hour upon my morn of age; Henceforth I quit thee from ...
southampton water (Rg Gregory Poem)
song of sea-leaves in an orchestra of foam branches of violins sprayed across the mind what is magnetic in a ...
Of The Ever-Changing Agitation In The Air (Jorie Graham Poem)
The man held his hands to his heart as he danced. He slacked and swirled. The doorways of the little ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
Waxwings (Robert Francis Poem)
Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings chat on a February berry bush in sun, and I am one. Such merriment ...
The Mountain (Robert Frost Poem)
The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed ...
Named (Stephen Dunn Poem)
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Commedy Call’d The Double Dealer (John Dryden Poems)
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
The Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
The Province of the Saved (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Province of the Saved Should be the Art -- To save -- Through Skill obtained in Themselves -- The ...
One of the ones that Midas touched (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
I think to Live — may be a Bliss (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I think to Live -- may be a Bliss To those who dare to try -- Beyond my limit to ...
I saw that the Flake was on it (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I saw that the Flake was on it But plotted with Time to dispute -- "Unchanged" I urged with a ...
I read my sentence — steadily (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
Fitter to see Him, I may be (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance -- Grace -- to Me -- With Summers, and ...
Death warrants are supposed to be (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Death warrants are supposed to be An enginery of equity A merciful mistake A pencil in an Idol's Hand A ...
‘Twas Love — not me (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas Love -- not me -- Oh punish -- pray -- The Real one died for Thee -- Just Him ...
Dew — is the Freshet in the Grass — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Dew -- is the Freshet in the Grass -- 'Tis many a tiny Mill Turns unperceived beneath our feet And ...
You love me — you are sure (Emily Dickinson Poem)
You love me -- you are sure -- I shall not fear mistake -- I shall not cheated wake -- ...
Today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The manic fires flared again today, very much the same irrational urges blazing from the open grate, urgent fervours that ...
Other side (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
At the Vietnam War Memorial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
Man Listening To Disc (Billy Collins Poem)
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
THE HUDSON (Luis Benitez Poem)
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Sex Without Love (Sharon Olds Poems)
How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ...
Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny (Lisel Mueller Poems)
Jenny, your mind commands kingdoms of black and white: you shoulder the crow on your left, the snowbird on your ...