Spring Wish (John Chipman Farrar Poems)
A frog's a very happy thing,Cool and green in early spring,Quick and silver through the pool,With no thought of books ...
Poems about nosing (21 Poems)
The Day Of The Daughter Of Hades (George Meredith Poems)
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
Lucretius (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, foundHer master cold; for when the morning flushOf passion and the first embrace had died Between ...
Towns in Colour (Amy Lowell Poems)
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Featherstonhaugh (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Brookong station lay half-asleepDozed in the waning western glare('Twas before the run had stocked with sheepAnd only cattle depastured there)As ...
An Aquarium (Amy Lowell Poem)
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
King of the River (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
If the water were clear enough, if the water were still, but the water is not clear, the water is ...
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 ...
owl power (Rg Gregory Poem)
they say in the local sanctuary owls are the stupidest creatures all this wisdom business is the mythological media at ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Variations on the Word Love (Margaret Atwood Poem)
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, ...
Orlie Wilde (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A goddess, with a siren's grace,-- A sun-haired girl on a craggy place Above a bay where fish-boats lay Drifting ...
Lucretius (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill (Robert William Service Poems)
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
Two Hundred Years After (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Trudging by Corbie Ridge one winter's night, (Unless old hearsay memories tricked his sight) Along the pallid edge of the ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Implications of One Plus One (Marge Piercy Poems)
Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging, continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten veins of fire deep in the earth ...
A Terre (Wilfred Owen Poems)
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
Schroeder the Fisherman (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...