The Summer Girl (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Poems about nape (21 Poems)
Poem [I don’t know as I get what D.H. Lawrence…] (Frank O Hara Poems)
I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence is driving at when he ...
In everything I seek to grasp… (Boris Pasternak Poems)
In everything I seek to graspThe fundamental:The daily choice, the daily task,The sentimental.To plumb the essence of the past,The first ...
Entreaty [with English translation] (Abdul Ghani Khan Poems)
na may sta da nari shudi dy pakarna da zulfi wal pa wal laka khamarna da bati pashan danga ghari ...
Concupiscenc (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
As the fierce faun, on the cypress-bearded cape,Desires the sea-girl, seen with billow-driftedHair the color of kelp and shadowy-riftedVulva that ...
A Sad State Of Freedom (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
You waste the attention of your eyes, the glittering labour of your hands, and knead the dough enough for dozens ...
The Peasant’s Confession (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days (Ted Hughes Poem)
She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He ...
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 ...
Sweeney Erect (T. S. Eliot Poem)
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
Memory (Michael Burch Poem)
A black ringlet curls to lie at the nape of her neck, glistening with sweat in the evaporate moonlight ... ...
Freedom of Love (Andre Breton Poem)
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed’s Church (Robert Browning Poems)
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War (Margaret Atwood Poem)
He was the sort of man who wouldn't hurt a fly. Many flies are now alive while he is not. ...
Leda And The Swan (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her ...
The Young Fools (Les Ingénus) (Paul Verlaine Poems)
High-heels were struggling with a full-length dress So that, between the wind and the terrain, At times a shining stocking ...
The Princess (part 6) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
Blue (May Swenson Poems)
Blue, but you are Rose, too, and buttermilk, but with blood dots showing through. A little salty your white nape ...
Sow (Sylvia Plath Poems)
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
There are Days (John Montague Poems)
There are days when one should be able to pluck off one's head like a dented or worn helmet, straight ...
A Woman Waking (Philip Levine Poems)
She wakens early remembering her father rising in the dark lighting the stove with a match scraped on the floor. ...