Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Poems about named (51 Poems)
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
An Imitation Of Anacreon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
PAINTER in Paphos and Cythera famed Depict, I pray, the absent Iris' face. Thou hast not seen the lovely nymph ...
Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time (Nick Flynn Poem)
He reads my latest attempt at a poem and is silent for a long time, until it feels like that ...
The Self-Seeker (Robert Frost Poem)
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
The Trial by Existence (Robert Frost Poem)
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
I Will Sing You One-O (Robert Frost Poem)
It was long I lay Awake that night Wishing that night Would name the hour And tell me whether To ...
Carnal Knowledge (Rebecca Elson Poem)
Having picked the final datum From the universe And fixed it in its column, Named the causes of infinity, Performed ...
I Grant You Ample Leave (George Eliot Poem)
"I grant you ample leave To use the hoary formula 'I am' Naming the emptiness where thought is not; But ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Scab Maids On Speed (Maggie Estep Poem)
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
Forbearance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich ...
Ai (Denise Duhamel Poem)
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
How We Heard the Name (Alan Dugan Poem)
The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it ...
The pungent atom in the Air (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The pungent atom in the Air Admits of no debate -- All that is named of Summer Days Relinquished our ...
Worthy Places (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
The Waipakihi (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Access Road Fifteen they named it this anonymous road to the Waipakihi where its brawling water becomes Tongariro. A moment's ...
Lake Otamangakau (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I The roaring of Te Whaiau intake weir intrudes as sleep eludes again to soar across the lake on white-tipped, ...
Benefit of doubt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Ah, that Murphy girl (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
Landscapes (Andree Chedid Poem)
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Alexandrian Kings (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Nightingale (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
Fit the Third ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...