Barmaid (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Though, if you ask her name, she says Elise, Being plain Elizabeth, e'en let it pass, And own that, if ...
Poems about novels (21 Poems)
Parousia (Louise Gluck Poem)
Love of my life, you Are lost and I am Young again. A few years pass. The air fills With ...
Palmetto (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A slower pace On the Banks Palmettos sway Translucent green Or tawny papyrus brown Mesmerize A northerner Away from the ...
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 ...
Emotional Idiot (Maggie Estep Poem)
Liner Notes - (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviously a theme close to my heart ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot Poem)
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Snow White’s Acne (Denise Duhamel Poems)
At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice, or a fleck of her mother's ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Why Washington Retreated (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
From On Being Fired Again (Erin Belieu Poem)
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Snapshot of a Lump (Kelli Russell Agodon Poem)
I imagine Nice and topless beaches, women smoking and reading novels in the sun. I pretend I am comfortable undressing ...
43. Song-O Leave Novels! (Robert Burns Poems)
O LEAVE novels, 1 ye Mauchline belles, Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel; Such witching books are baited hooks For rakish ...
Novel (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
I. No one's serious at seventeen. --On beautiful nights when beer and lemonade And loud, blinding cafés are the last ...
Gentleman Alone (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours' pregnant, ...
The City of Perth (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful Ancient City of Perth, One of the fairest on the earth, With your stately mansions and scenery most fine, ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
April 19 (David Lehman Poems)
We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, ...
A Little History (David Lehman Poems)
Some people find out they are Jews. They can't believe it. Thy had always hated Jews. As children they had ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
Shake The Superflux! (David Lehman Poems)
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, ...