Evangelist (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Say prickly pears had roots which found out water,had branches bursting out in sulphur flame.Wanderers traipsing from a cracked sierramunched ...
Poems about obscuring (21 Poems)
Estuary (Gwen Harwood Poems)
To Rex HobcroftWind crosshatches shallow water.Paddocks rest in the sea's arm.Swamphens race through spiky grass.A wire fence leans, a crazy ...
From Faust – VI. Scene–A Garden (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
Margaret. Faust.MARGARET.DOST thou believe in God?FAUST. Doth mortal liveWho dares to say that he believes in God?Go, bid the priest a ...
Lawstudent And Coach (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Each day I sit in an ill-lighted roomTo teach a boy;For one hour by the clock great words and dreamsAre ...
The Dirge (Henry King Poems)
VVhat is th' Existence of Mans life?But open war, or slumber'd strife.Where sickness to his sense presentsThe combat of the ...
Burying Friends (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
BURYING friends is not a pomp,Not, indeed, Roman:Lacking the monument,Heroic stone;Nor is it an obscuring parasol,The pad of customary gloves ...
Shadowed (Jewell Miller Poems)
Deeper than the seaThat has no sounding,Softer than the hushThat comes when all is over,Silent as the feet that seekAnd ...
To the Moon [Earlier Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
In Lukewarm Weather (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Translated From the Chinese of Wang Ch'ang Ling (eighth century).The women who were girls a long time agoAre sitting between ...
Color – Caste – (Emily Dickinson Poems)
970Color - Caste - Denomination -These - are Time's Affair -Death's diviner ClassifyingDoes not know they are -As in sleep ...
Letter To Kizer From Seattle (Richard Hugo Poem)
Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape in the Iowa tulips. ...
Distracted from Your Grace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The clutter of our lives the little things in the way obscuring our vision our eyes off the prize Losing ...
Hiding in the Edge of the Wood (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not the shy deer at the edge of the field the silent old stone wall from an earlier time hiding ...
Burgundy Blooms (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Looking up, hard to differentiate a saturation of burgundy blooms the crab apple rich color the petals, the stamen, the ...
A Skim of Yellow (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Yellow dust, a patina of pollen covering the cars below the ancient oak planted long before the city grew, the ...
Color — Caste — Denomination — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Color -- Caste -- Denomination -- These -- are Time's Affair -- Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are ...
Because that you are going (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...
Life’s Completeness (S.G. Fisher Poem)
A love that lasts forever: A friendship naught can sever; A courage never failing, Though evil seems prevailing; And joyous, ...
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
A Summer Night (George William Russell Poems)
HER mist of primroses within her breast Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath ...
The Old King’s New Jester (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You that in vain would front the coming order With eyes that meet forlornly what they must, And only with ...