Biography (John Masefield Poems)
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this ...
Poems about museums (20 Poems)
The Sheep Child (James Dickey Poems)
Farm boys wild to coupleWith anything with soft-wooded treesWith mounds of earth moundsOf pinestraw will keep themselves offAnimals by legends of their own:In ...
To The Museum Committee (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
In Response (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Breakfast at the Century Club, New York, May, 1879.SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,His pulse beat its ...
Paintings (Marin Sorescu Poems)
All the museums are afraid of me,Because each time I spend a whole dayIn front of a paintingThe next day ...
Lunar Baedeker (Mina Loy Poems)
A silver Luciferservescocaine in cornucopiaTo some somnambulistsof adolescent thighsdrapedin satirical draperiesPeris in liveryprepareLethefor posthumous parvenuesDelirious Avenueslitwith the chandelier soulsof infusoriafrom ...
Nothing (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
In bookstores there are no books,in books no words,in words no essence:there are only husks.In museums and waiting roomsare painted ...
Tempora Mutantur (E W Bowling Poems)
There once was a time when I revelled in rhyme, with Valentines deluged my cousins, Translated Tibullus and ...
The May Term (E W Bowling Poems)
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
To Mrs. Professor In Defense Of My Cat’s Honor And Not Only (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
My valiant helper, a small-sized tigerSleeps sweetly on my desk, by the computer,Unaware that you insult his tribe.Cats play with ...
The Traveler (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?—That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in ...
The Antiques At Paris (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
That which Grecian art created,Let the Frank, with joy elated, Bear to Seine's triumphant strand,And in his museums gloriousShow the ...
San Sepolcro (Jorie Graham Poem)
In this blue light I can take you there, snow having made me a world of bone seen through to. ...
Madmen (Billy Collins Poem)
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
Let It Enfold You (Charles Bukowski Poem)
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You . . . (Charles Bukowski Poems)
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
The Antiques At Paris (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
That which Grecian art created, Let the Frank, with joy elated, Bear to Seine's triumphant strand, And in his museums ...
To Be of Use (Marge Piercy Poems)
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...