Passing Through (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries. In the secrecy of my room I would not admit I cared ...
Poems about occasions (20 Poems)
The Legend of Mirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
THE WANDERER’S STORM-SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
To Mr. F. Now Earl of W (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
There is another Loneliness (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There is another Loneliness That many die without -- Not want of friend occasions it Or circumstances of Lot But ...
A Sickness of this World it most occasions (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Sickness of this World it most occasions When Best Men die. A Wishfulness their far Condition To occupy. A ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
The Pelagian Drinking Song (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Pelagius lived at Kardanoel And taught a doctrine there How, whether you went to heaven or to hell It was ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
To Romance (Lord Byron Poem)
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of ...
Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come (John Berryman Poem)
There were strange gatherings. A vote would come that would be no vote. There would come a rope. Yes. There ...
Identity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
1) An individual spider web identifies a species: an order of instinct prevails through all accidents of circumstance, though possibility ...
My Philosophy of Life (John Ashbery Poem)
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (James Tate Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
A New Year’s Gift (William Strode Poems)
We are prevented; you whose Presence is A Publick New-yeares gift, a Common bliss To all that Love or Feare, ...
Learning by Doing (Howard Nemerov Poems)
They're taking down a tree at the front door, The power saw is snarling at some nerves, Whining at others. ...
Juggling Jerry (George Meredith Poems)
Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: By the old hedge-side we'll halt a stage. It's nigh my ...
Vehicles (W. S. Merwin Poems)
This is a place on the way after the distances can no longer be kept straight here in this dark ...