The Winter Cuckoo (Paul Colinet Poems)
A cuckoo, larger than the forest, digs a hole in thestill warm, ashen landscape.The butt of a rifle spreads over ...
Poems about observer (21 Poems)
Marginal Note (James Phillip McAuley Poems)
A ray of light, to an oblique observer,Remains invisible in pure dry air;But shone into a turbid elementIt throws distracting ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Borough. Letter II: The Church (George Crabbe Poems)
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
The Mourner (George Crabbe Poems)
Yes! there are real mourners — I have seenA fair, sad girl, mild, suffering, and serene;Attention (through the day) her ...
An Answer To A Poetical Apology (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHEN FINGAL dwelt in windy halls,As mournful OSSIAN tells,Midst lofty Selma's shaded wallsHe spread the feast of shells.Each tuneful bard ...
Cosmopolitan (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
Stand up against governments, against God.Stay irresponsible.Say only what we know & imagine.Absolutes are Coercion.Change is absolute.Ordinary mind includes eternal ...
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 ...
Professor Noctutus (George MacDonald Poems)
Nobody knows the world but me.The rest go to bed; I sit up and see.I'm a better observer than any ...
To My Young Countryman D.H.D. (Charles Harpur Poems)
Who doubteth, when the morning star doth light Her lamp of beauty, that the day is coming?Or, ...
Interregnum (Weldon Kees Poem)
Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant, And leave him stinking in the square. Torture the chancellor. Leave the ambassador Strung by ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
Cosmopolitan Greetings (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only ...
A Cigarette Butt (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It was the incongruity the foreign color, out of place sand camouflage on the Humvee merging with me, on the ...
Falls (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Back out into the wet woods Walking and hiking But always looking, watching, Searching for that one moment when the ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Eidólons. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...