A cat on a wire (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A short chain-link fence ran along the sidewalk in front of the old New Englander the short front yard just ...
Poems about opposite (33 Poems)
The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forche Poem)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
Man’s Injustice Towards Providence (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
Wild Grapes (Robert Frost Poem)
What tree may not the fig be gathered from? The grape may not be gathered from the birch? It's all ...
In a London Drawingroom (George Eliot Poem)
The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke. For view there are the houses opposite Cutting the sky with one ...
The Wounded Breakfast (Russell Edson Poem)
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
Without this — there is nought — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Without this -- there is nought -- All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird -- Heard ...
Unfulfilled to Observation — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Unfulfilled to Observation -- Incomplete -- to Eye -- But to Faith -- a Revolution In Locality -- Unto Us ...
The Zeroes — taught us — Phosphorous — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Zeroes -- taught us -- Phosphorous -- We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers -- when a ...
The right to perish might be thought (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The right to perish might be thought An undisputed right -- Attempt it, and the Universe Upon the opposite Will ...
The Night was wide, and furnished scant (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star -- That often as a Cloud it met ...
I’ve none to tell me to but Thee (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I've none to tell me to but Thee So when Thou failest, nobody. It was a little tie -- It ...
I rose — because He sank — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I rose -- because He sank -- I thought it would be opposite -- But when his power dropped -- ...
Experience is the Angled Road (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself -- Presuming it to ...
The Rose did caper on her cheek (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Rose did caper on her cheek -- Her Bodice rose and fell -- Her pretty speech -- like drunken ...
That it will never come again (Emily Dickinson Poem)
That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Believing what we don't believe Does not exhilarate. ...
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, As lately as Today -- I know it, by the numb look ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The Aeolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
The Eolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
Fit the First: ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
ABOUT LOVE FOR BARBARIANS (Luis Benitez Poem)
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
Devonshire Street W.1 (John Betjeman Poem)
The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen Shuts. And the sound is rich, sympathetic, discreet. The sun still shines ...
Partners (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Love took chambers on our street Opposite to mine; On his door he tacked a neat, Clearly lettered sign. Straightway ...
Dawn (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat. Through sullen swirling gloom we jolt and roar. We have been here for ...
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 ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...