The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about oiled (21 Poems)
The Foreigner (Amy Lowell Poem)
Have at you, you Devils! My back's to this tree, For you're nothing so nice That the hind-side of me ...
To Sleep (John Keats Poem)
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, ...
How Did You Meet Your Wife? (Richard Jones Poem)
Swimming the English Channel, struggling to make it to Calais, I swam into Laura halfway across. My body oiled for ...
Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days (Ted Hughes Poem)
She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He ...
Silvered In The Dying Light (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Silvered in the dying light she lies a silent sleeping twinkle coloured Eve who heaves and breathes a sinuous sigh ...
The Summer I Was Sixteen (Geraldine Connolly Poem)
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji (John Berryman Poem)
The taxi makes the vegetables fly. 'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
The Map (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of ...
Where Once The Waters Of Your Face (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead turns up its ...
Death In The Lounge Bar (Vernon Scannell Poems)
The bar he went inside was not A place he often visited; He welcomed anonymity; No one to switch inquisitive ...
The Touch (Anne Sexton Poems)
For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it ...
A Garden In Chicago (Karl Shapiro Poems)
In the mid-city, under an oiled sky, I lay in a garden of such dusky green It seemed the dregs ...
Ode To a Large Tuna in the Market (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Among the market greens, a bullet from the ocean depths, a swimming projectile, I saw you, dead. All around you ...
Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen Poems)
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
Comete (Les Murray Poems)
Uphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day a woman is walking ahead of her hair. Like teak oiled soft to ...
Modern Love VII: She Issues Radiant (George Meredith Poems)
She issues radiant from her dressing-room, Like one prepared to scale an upper sphere: --By stirring up a lower, much ...
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives (Philip Levine Poems)
It's wonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping like oiled parts with each light ...
Night Words (Philip Levine Poems)
after Juan Ramon A child wakens in a cold apartment. The windows are frosted. Outside he hears words rising from ...