An excerpt from “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” (Denise Levertov Poem)
iiGloria Praise the wet snow falling early. Praise the shadow my neighor's chimney casts on the tile roof even this ...
Poems about murderous (31 Poems)
Man And Wife (Robert Lowell Poem)
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; the rising sun in war paint dyes us red; in broad daylight ...
That Distance Apart (Jackie Kay Poem)
I am only nineteen My whole life is changing Tonight I see her Shuttered eyes in my dreams I cannot ...
The Testing-Tree (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
1 On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark where I could never hope ...
Arithmetic on the Frontier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A great and glorious thing it is To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Moon In Virgo (James Lee Jobe Poem)
You are not beaten. The simple music rises up, children's voices in the air, sound floating out across the land ...
A Farewell to Agassiz (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
The Sick God (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I In days when men had joy of war, A God of Battles sped each mortal jar; The peoples pledged ...
the adventures (from frederick and the enchantress – dance drama) (Rg Gregory Poem)
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
The Deserted Village (Oliver Goldsmith Poem)
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
We Have Become What we Abhor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Murderous madmen, willing to abuse, to torture, to inflict pain, indiscriminate heartless, oft calculated Unlike us, held up for ridicule, ...
The delectable ballad of the waller lot (Eugene Field Poem)
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
Sweeney among the Nightingales (T. S. Eliot Poem)
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
If democratically elected (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
Cologne (Paul Celan Poem)
In Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous ...
Cologne (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
In K?hln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous ...
Love (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
1991-I (Wendell Berry Poem)
The year begins with war. Our bombs fall day and night, Hour after hour, by death Abroad appeasing wrath, Folly, ...
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 ...
314. Song-There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame (Robert Burns Poems)
BY yon Castle wa', at the close of the day, I heard a man sing, tho' his head it was ...
Elm (Sylvia Plath Poems)
for Ruth Fainlight I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root; It is what ...
Poems, Potatoes (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line Ousts mistier peers and thrives, murderous, In establishments which imagined lines Can only ...
Full Fathom Five (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
The Horrors of Majuba (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas after the great Majuba fight: And the next morning, at daylight, Captain Macbean's men were ordered to headquarters camp, ...
The Last Berkshire Eleven (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
The Battle of the Nile (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...