The Avon (Mathilde Blind Poems)
WHAT are the Willows whispering in a row, Nodding their old heads o'er the river's edge? What does the West wind whisper ...
Poems about ophelia (21 Poems)
Melpomene (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FAIR friend, you tread to your imperial goalThe gallery of Shakespeare's womanhood :Love-lost Ophelia, Egypt's varying mood,Pure Isabella, the relentless ...
Shakespeare’ (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I saw the grave of Shakespeare in a dream,And round about it grouped a wondrous throng,His own majestic mourners, who ...
Sweet To The Sweet (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
What say the flowers above Ophelia's tomb?"We bloom to fade; she faded but to bloom." (John Bannister Tabb)
Styx River Anthology (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
O Who Will Speak From a Womb or a Cloud? (George Barker Poems)
Not less light shall the gold and the green lieOn the cyclonic curl and diamonded eye, thanLove lay yesterday on ...
Lessons of English (Boris Pasternak Poems)
When Desdemona sang a ditty- In her last hours among the living- It wasn't love that she lamented, And not ...
Broken Promise (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
THAT was by the doorLeafy evening in the apple treesAnd you would not forget this anymoreAnd even if you died ...
The Craftsman (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor, ...
Dear Colette (Erica Jong Poem)
Dear Colette, I want to write to you about being a woman for that is what you write to me. ...
On The Sea-Shore, Smell Of Iodine (Regina Derieva Poem)
On the sea-shore, smell of iodine, and square as in Sicily, and dancing. An intellectual that came from the common ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Hambeau Heartbroke Horny (D. C. Berry Poem)
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back all my Frank Zappa and the Mothers albums. I nearly claw out ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: She Wheel (D. C. Berry Poem)
Ophelia puked hourly dawn till dusk, retching mucous slobber, then spewing air. Scum that I am, I never stopped thinking ...
Lapis Lazuli (William Butler Yeats Poems)
(For Harry Clifton) I HAVE heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow. Of poets ...
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
They All Want to Play Hamlet (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THEY all want to play Hamlet. They have not exactly seen their fathers killed Nor their mothers in a frame-up ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
This Night Slip, In His Honor (after Komachi) (Jennifer Reeser Poems)
This night slip, in his honor flipped inside out - of lace- edged netting - is the color of Shaka ...
An Address to Shakespeare (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel, You have drawn out your characters remarkably well, Which is delightful for ...
A Silly Poem (Spike Milligan Poems)
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not ...
Epitaphs For Two Players (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...