The White Ships and the Red (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Alden March) With drooping sail and pennant That never a wind may reach, They float in sunless waters Beside ...
Poems about oceans (31 Poems)
A Song In Storm (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
The Merchantmen (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
Great-Heart (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Theodore Roosevelt "The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart."--Bunyan's' Pilgrim's Process Concerning brave Captains Our age ...
The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
Poem (Donald Justice Poem)
This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, ...
Sonnet (II) (George Herbert Poem)
Sure Lord, there is enough in thee to dry Oceans of Ink ; for, as the Deluge did Cover the ...
ducks and wisdom (Rg Gregory Poem)
seven lacqueur ducks on a silver pond their rippling held in a moveless ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
September On Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
The Size of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Tall mountains reaching to the sky Deep canyons, cut into the earth, gorges, valleys Huge blue whales, the enormity of ...
Paper Men To Air Hopes And Fears (Robert Francis Poem)
The first speaker said Fear fire. Fear furnaces Incinerators, the city dump The faint scratch of a match. The second ...
Morning Worship (Mark van Doren Poem)
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
We miss a Kinsman more (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We miss a Kinsman more When warranted to see Than when withheld of Oceans From possibility A Furlong than a ...
Ourselves were wed one summer — dear — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Ourselves were wed one summer -- dear -- Your Vision -- was in June -- And when Your little Lifetime ...
I think that the Root of the Wind is Water — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I think that the Root of the Wind is Water -- It would not sound so deep Were it a ...
Water, is taught by thirst. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Water, is taught by thirst. Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its ...
I cannot live with You — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I cannot live with You -- It would be Life -- And Life is over there -- Behind the Shelf ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The Worlds in this World (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Ohio (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Whale (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The Whale is found in seas and oceans, Indulging there in fishlike motions, But Science shows that Whales are mammals, ...
The Other Tiger (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
In Memoriam Mae Noblitt (A. R. Ammons Poem)
This is just a place: we go around, distanced, yearly in a star's atmosphere, turning daily into and out of ...
Million Man March Poem (Maya Angelou Poem)
The night has been long, The wound has been deep, The pit has been dark, And the walls have been ...
Woman Work (Maya Angelou Poem)
I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the ...
64. Fragment of Song-“My Jean!” (Robert Burns Poem)
THO' cruel fate should bid us part, Far as the pole and line, Her dear idea round my heart, Should ...
117. Song-Farewell to Eliza (Robert Burns Poems)
FROM thee, Eliza, I must go, And from my native shore; The cruel fates between us throw A boundless ocean's ...