Best Society (Philip Larkin Poem)
When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, ...
Poems about obvious (31 Poems)
An Old Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
Quiet in the Garden (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The night quiet quiet in the garden disciples sleeping Jesus at a distance praying to the Lord Startled from my ...
Stopping in the Garden (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
After the Passover the words that Christ spoke stopping in the garden their eyes heavy with sleep Three chosen, going ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Emptying Town (Nick Flynn Poem)
I want to erase your footprints from my walls. Each pillow is thick with your reasons. Omens fill the sidewalk ...
Unwanted (Edward Field Poem)
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals (Norman Dubie Poems)
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
Walking The Marshland (Stephen Dunn Poem)
It was no place for the faithless, so I felt a little odd walking the marshland with my daughters, Canada ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Political nonsense (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
Key economy (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Pain (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
By The Fire-Side (Robert Browning Poem)
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
Sonnet 07 – The face of all the world is changed, I think (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul Move ...
O, We Are The Outcasts (Charles Bukowski Poems)
ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more P O E T R Y . if it doesn't come, ...
The New Hieroglyphics (Les Murray Poems)
In the World language, sometimes called Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola under it is a symbol for ...
Attempted Assassination of the Queen (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
God prosper long our noble Queen, And long may she reign! Maclean he tried to shoot her, But it was ...
The Good Man in Hell (Edwin Muir Poems)
If a good man were ever housed in Hell By needful error of the qualities, Perhaps to prove the rule ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
July 12 (David Lehman Poems)
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason honeymooners traditionally went to ...
A Grave (Marianne Moore Poems)
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
What Work Is (Philip Levine Poems)
We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work ...